Book of Lemmas

[1] The Book of Lemmas was first introduced in Arabic by Thābit ibn Qurra; he attributed the work to Archimedes.

A translation from Arabic into Latin by John Greaves and revised by Samuel Foster (c. 1650) was published in 1659 as Lemmata Archimedis.

Another Latin translation by Abraham Ecchellensis and edited by Giovanni A. Borelli was published in 1661 under the name Liber Assumptorum.

In propositions five, Archimedes introduces the Archimedes's twin circles, and in proposition eight, he makes use what would be the Pappus chain, formally introduced by Pappus of Alexandria.

Archimedes first introduced the salinon (salt cellar) in proposition fourteen of his book: Let ACB be a semicircle on AB as diameter, and let AD, BE be equal lengths measured along AB from A, B respectively.