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Archimedes
Fulcrum of Science
Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
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A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist.Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than all of Europe...
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A bold reimagining of the life and work of Archimedes of Syracuse.
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A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist.
Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse an engineer who single-handedly defied the world's most powerful army and a mathematician who knew more in 212 BCE than all of Europe would know for the next seventeen centuries. In this bold reimagining, modern polymath Nicholas Nicastro shines a new light on Archimedes' life and work. Far from the aloof, physically inept figure of historical myth, Archimedes is revealed to be an ambitious, combative, and fiercely competitive man. A genius who challenged an empire, Archimedes emerges in this book as the world's first fully modern scientist millennia before his intellectual descendants transformed our world.
Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781789149227
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 16 September 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Illustration: 32 illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 192
About the Author
Nicholas Nicastro is a novelist and science writer with articles in the New York Times, New York Observer, and others. His books include Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.
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