Claudian Epigram on the Heavenly Sphere of Archimedes

Recently I discovered on Internet Archive Charles Hutton’s “A mathematical and philosophical dictionary”. Hutton’s mathematical dictionary is one of the earliest dictionaries that focused on the mathematical sciences. In this post I just want to transcribe an epigram written by Claudian about a sphere of glass created by Archimedes that showed the motions of the… Continue reading Claudian Epigram…