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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

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ISBN13: 9781789149227
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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

$22.50
 
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.


Author: Nicholas Nicastro
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Publication Date: Nov 26, 2024
Number of Pages: 240 pages
Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10: 1789149223
ISBN-13: 9781789149227
 

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