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The Archytas Curve

This entire section is wrong as of 26 June 2009. The "curve" described is a surface and has a standard name: hemi-sphere. I believe what the author is trying to describe is a construction for cube roots that involves intersecting a cylinder, a torus, and a cone. This process produces some unusual curves of intersection.

The wikipedia article "Doubling the Cube" refers to this construction and contains the following link:

To Double a Cube -- The Solution of Archytas. Excerpted with permission from A History of Greek Mathematics by Sir Thomas Heath.

This is the best reference to this construction I've found yet. I don't have time to fix the article myself, so best wishes, whoever takes it on.

Parts of this article are a bit incoherent, eg the end of the Delian problem passage. Also, perhaps it might be mentioned that Archytas was credited with measuring the earth and ocean, and numbering the sands, as at the opening of Horace's poem, "te maris et terrae numeroque carentis harenae mensorem" etc. Seadowns (talk) 23:27, 21 May 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I don't know what the original version of this section was like, but the present version (at 11 October 2020) is still obscure. I don't know what is meant by 'the plane of the diameter of the cylinder' (as a cylinder has many diameters), and in any case there will be many planes through any given line. Moreover, the semicircle is not being rotated in a single plane at all; it is being rotated around an axis perpendicular to its own original plane!2A00:23C8:7906:1301:DA3:7C4E:1061:5E20 (talk) 11:12, 11 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Bust of Archytas, or Pythagoras?

It would be nice if there was a known bust of Archytas, but the Naples bust currently illustrating this article is no longer believed to be him. The reason why it once was identified as Archytas because it looked similar to a head on a coin, which was afterwards discovered to be false. The currently opinion is that it represents Pythagoras, mainly because of that turban/headband thingy he's got on, which is similar to how Pythagoras is portrayed in other Hellenistic busts. Anyway I've left it in the page for now with a suitable caption. Pasicles (talk) 23:57, 24 September 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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an addition

here is the Archytas steam powered pigeon:

https://postimg.cc/xcjns06Q — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.72.101.175 (talk) 12:18, 29 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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