{"product_id":"archimedes-by-nicholas-nicastro-9781789149227","title":"Archimedes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA bold reimagining of the Greek mathematician's singular life as a truly modern scientist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGalileo, 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.  \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47932123971820,"sku":"9781789149227","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781789149227-archimedes.jpg?v=1783851353","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/archimedes-by-nicholas-nicastro-9781789149227","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}