Archimedes
Author of Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus
About the Author
Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor, born in Syracuse, Sicily, about 287 B.C. He became famous for his law of the lever and for inventing the catapult, parabolic mirror, and the mechanical crane that was capable of capsizing a ship by overturning it. These inventions were designed to defend show more Syracuse during the Second Punic War, which were waged between Rome and Carthage. While Archimedes made fundamental contributions to physics, his greatest contributions were to theoretical mathematics. Some of his works have come down to us. When Syracuse was taken in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by the Roman soldiers, being at the time intent upon a mathematical problem. show less
Works by Archimedes
Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus (1952) — Contributor — 426 copies
The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary (2004) 52 copies
Sobre les conoides i les esferoides ; La mesura del cercle ; La quadratura de la paràbola (2016) 7 copies, 3 reviews
Archimède. De la sphère et du cylindre - La mesure du cercle - Sur les conoïdes et les sphéroïdes, tome 1 (2015) 7 copies
Archimède. Tome II: Des spirales - De l'équilibre des figures planes - L'arénaire - La quadrature de la parabole. (1971) 4 copies
Archimède. Tome III: Des corps flottants - Stomachion - La méthode - Le livre des lemmes - Le problème des boeufs, (2002) 3 copies
Archimède. Des corps flottants - Stomachion - La méthode - Le livre des lemmes - Le problème des boeufs, tome 3 (2002) 2 copies
Tratados I. Sobre la esfera y el cilindro · Medida del círculo · Sobre los conoides y esferoides / Comentarios (Selección) (2005) 2 copies
Sobre la sorra ; Sobre les línies espirals ; Sobre l'equilibri de les figures planes ; Sobre els cossos flotants ; Stomachion (2025) 2 copies, 1 review
El método relativo a los teoremas mecánicos : la vida heuristica de los descubrimientos matemáticos de Arquímedes (0250) 2 copies
On Floating Bodies 2 copies
Archimedes: Selected Works 1 copy
On Floating Bodies 1.1-2 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
Tome 3: Des corps flottants: Stomachion: La méthode: Le livre des lemmes: Le problème des boeufs 1 copy
Tome 2: Des spirales: De l'équilibre des figures planes: L'Arénaire: La quadrature de la parabole 1 copy
El Método 1 copy
Various 1 copy
Book of Lemmas 1 copy
Archimedis. Opera omnia 4 1 copy
Quadrature of the Parabola 1 copy
On the Equilibrium of Planes 1 copy
On Spirals 1 copy
On Conoids and Spheroids 1 copy
Measurement of a Circle 1 copy
Sobre l’esfera i el cilindre 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 287 BC (ca)
- Date of death
- 212 BC (ca)
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Greece
- Associated Place (for map)
- Greece
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What an interesting read. A fable told like it was real (and convincingly so if the other reviews are to be believed).
A wonderful tale of overcoming ordeal and adversity - I don't think I could last over 200 at sea in a life boat - with it without a Bengal Tiger.
It could be a hard or difficult read the first person style seems to jump from author to Pi and back without any indication of who is talking however after a while you begin to understand and can easily slip from one to the other. show more
I do want to see the movie adaptation now I have read the book.
A great piece of modern fantasy or should that be fable? Or something else.
God plays a big part in this story as well which is I believe the main intention of the author, to me however, I enjoyed the fantastic elements - the story builds and grow on you. I had to finish it I had to know what happened next. I read it at lunch today and again now in the evening just to get it done. Sign of a good book. show less
A wonderful tale of overcoming ordeal and adversity - I don't think I could last over 200 at sea in a life boat - with it without a Bengal Tiger.
It could be a hard or difficult read the first person style seems to jump from author to Pi and back without any indication of who is talking however after a while you begin to understand and can easily slip from one to the other. show more
I do want to see the movie adaptation now I have read the book.
A great piece of modern fantasy or should that be fable? Or something else.
God plays a big part in this story as well which is I believe the main intention of the author, to me however, I enjoyed the fantastic elements - the story builds and grow on you. I had to finish it I had to know what happened next. I read it at lunch today and again now in the evening just to get it done. Sign of a good book. show less
friend, canst thou analyse this in thy mind,
and of these masses all the measures find,
go forth in glory! be assured all deem
thy wisdom in this discipline supreme!
and of these masses all the measures find,
go forth in glory! be assured all deem
thy wisdom in this discipline supreme!
L'Edició d'aquesta obra és simplement magnífica, Ramon Masià Fornos és matemàtic i filòleg clàssic i ha fet un treball digne de menció, tan la traducció con els dibuixos són clar i ben fets, només cal felicitar-lo.
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