The Great Archimedes
In this exclusive English edition of the elucidating and award-winning investigation of Archimedes' life, Mario Geymonat provides fresh insights into one of the greatest minds in the history of humankind. Archimedes (ca 287 BCE-ca 212 BCE) was a mathematician, physicist, scientist, and engineer. Born in Syracuse, Sicily, the Greek Archimedes was an inventor par excellence. He not only explored the displacement of water and sand, worked out the principle of levers, developed an approximation of pi, discovered ways to determine the areas and volumes of solids, and invented the monumental Archimedes' screw (a machine for raising water), Archimed…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, R. A. (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-60258-311-5
- EAN: 9781602583115
- Produktnummer: 10313926
- Verlag: Baylor University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 132 S.
- Masse: H21.5 cm x B14.1 cm x D1.5 cm 208 g
- Abbildungen: colour photos
- Gewicht: 208
Über den Autor
Mario Geymonat, a leading, world-class scholar of antiquity, has taught at the University Ca'Foscari of Venice, and at the Universities of Milan, Calabria, and Siena. He is the author of major critical works, including volumes on Virgil, Euclid, and Archimedes. In its original publication in Italian The Great Archimedes was awarded the coveted Corrado Alvaro award for Italian literary excellence. Geymonat lives in Italy. R. Alden Smith is Professor of Classics and Associate Dean of the Honors College at Baylor University.
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