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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.
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Archimedes, Nicholas Nicastro
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- Archimedes
- Untertitel
- Fulcrum of Science
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Nicholas Nicastro
- Verlag
- Reaktion Books
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2024
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 192
- ISBN10
- 1789149223
- ISBN13
- 9781789149227
- Reihe
- Kategorien
- Schlagwörter
- Historisches Thema, Altertum, Griechenland, Geometrie, Geschichte der Wissenschaft, Antikes Griechenland, Sizilien, Griechisch, Archimedes
- Beschreibung
- 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.