The Method of Mechanical Theorems.
work by Archimedes, in the form of a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, about the use of infinitesimals and mechanical analogies to levers to solve geometric problems
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The Method of Mechanical Theorems, also referred to as The Method, is one of the major surviving works of the ancient Greek polymath Archimedes. The Method takes the form of a letter from Archimedes to Eratosthenes, the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, and contains the first attested explicit use of indivisibles. The work was originally thought to be lost, but in 1906 was rediscovered in the celebrated Archimedes Palimpsest. The palimpsest includes Archimedes' account of the "mechanical method", so called because it relies on the center of weights of figures (centroid) and the law of the lever, which were demonstrated by Archimedes in On the Equilibrium of Planes.
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