Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Nicholas NicastroSeries:Great Lives of the Ancient WorldPublish date:2024-11-26Pages:240
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789149227ISBN-10:1789149223UPC:9781789149227Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Historical, Science & TechnologyBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.77 x 5.85 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCMWN7C7FZ
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.
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Reaktion BooksISBN-13:9781789149227ISBN-10:1789149223UPC:9781789149227Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Ancient, Historical, Science & TechnologyBook Topic:GreeceSize:8.77 x 5.85 x 0.83 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCMWN7C7FZ
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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