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On the Sphere and Cylinder is a treatise that was published by Archimedes in two volumes c. 225 BCE. It most notably details how to find the surface area of a sphere and the volume of the contained ball and the analogous values for a cylinder, and was the first to do so.

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On the Sphere and Cylinder

work by Archimedes, calculating via the method of exhaustion the surface area of a sphere and the volume of a ball

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