Pinakes
A catalogue of all who shone in learning, and what they wrote — the first true bibliography.
Phaenomena
A poem of the night sky — constellations, weather signs, and the order of the heavens.
On the Sphere & Cylinder
Two volumes on volume — the surfaces and contents of figures, derived without modern calculus.
On Floating Bodies
The principle that bears his name — and a king’s crown weighed in water.
Oedipus Rex
A king who solves every riddle but the one of his own birth.
Nicomachean Ethics
Ten books on virtue, the mean between extremes, and the question of the good life.
Mechanica
Levers, pulleys, screws — and a steam engine eighteen centuries early
Lysistrata
The women of Greece end a war by means the men had not anticipated.
Geographica
The earth measured at noon by the shadow of a stick — within fifty miles of true.
Conics
Eight books on parabolas, ellipses, and hyperbolas — names this volume itself bestowed.