Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point

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Theorem



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Historical Note

The Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point was first determined by Archimedes in his book On Spirals.

His proof appears as Proposition $20$.

It is suggested that the method used by Archimedes anticipated the methods of differential calculus.