After the taking of Constantinople, in the middle of the 15th century, the works of Archimedes were brought, by the Greek refugees, from that city to Italy, where they were found by the celebrated Regiomontanus, who carried them into Germany. In 1544, they were pub lished at Basil, in Greek and Latin, by Hervagius, and were accompanied with the Commentaries of Eutocius. They have since passed through many editions, and have been illustrated by the annotations of some of the most eminent mathematicians of modern times. A very com plete and splendid edition of the works of Archimedes issued from the Clarendon Press, at Oxford, in 1792 : This edition was prepared by Joseph Torelli of Verona : The Latin translation is new ; and there is a large col lection of the various readings that occur in the manu scripts of Archimedes's works which are preserved at Paris and Florence. This edition was printed under the direction of the learned and reverend Abram Robert son, of Christ's Church College, Oxford ; who has add ed a commentary of his own, on the treatise of Archi medes relative to floating bodies. In the large work intitled, Alathematici Veteres," which contains a col-, lection of the works of the Greek mathematicians, and which appeared at Paris in 1693, the writings of Archi medes hold a principal place.
In our articles BURNING-GLASS, GEOMETRY, HY DRODYNAMICS, and MECHANICS, we shall have occasion to resume the subjects casually discussed in this article, as they stand connected with the general progress of discovery. See Plutarch, In Marcella. Cicero, Tuscul. lib. i. ct v. cap. 23. Id. De Nat. Dear. lib. i. Id. Ad. Attic. lib. xiii. E9. 28. Id. De Finibus, lib. v. cap. 19. Livy, lib. xxiv. cap. 23, 34. lib. 25. cap. 31. Valerius Marinzus, lib. viii. cap. 7. Poly,enus, lib. viii. cap. 11, 12. Silius Italicus, lib. xiv. v. 677. Atheneus, Bieprosoph. lib. v. Vitruvius, Architect. lib. ix. cap. 3. Ovid. Fast. vi. 277. Polybius, Hist. lib. viii. Quintil. i. cap. 10. Tertullian, De Animis, cap. xiv. Atilius Fortunatianus, Gramm. Vet. Fahricii, Biblioth. Gnec. lib. iii. Count Maria Mazzuchelli, Notizie Hist. intrrno alla vita, alli •critti, e invenzioni d'Archlinede, 1735, fol. Mem. Acad.
tics Belles Letttes, torn. xv. and Montucla's .11;st. des Nat& mati9ues, tom. i. p. 231. (p)