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so:text Archytas of Tarentum found the two mean proportionals by a very striking construction in three dimensions, which shows that solid geometry, in the hands of Archytas at least, was already well advanced. The construction was usually called mechanical, which it no doubt was in form, though in reality it was in the highest degree theoretical. It consisted in determining a point in space as the intersection of three surfaces: a cylinder, a cone, an "anchor-ring" with internal radius = 0. (en)
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so:description Achimedes (1920) (en)
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