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Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science: Great Lives of the Ancient World

Autor Nicholas Nicastro
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 noi 2024
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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ISBN-13: 9781789149227
ISBN-10: 1789149223
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 35 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World


Notă biografică

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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“An engaging account of the life and legacy of Archimedes of Syracuse. . . . Nicastro presents Archimedes’s ideas and achievements with admirable clarity.”

"An enthralling account of the wider cultural context in which Archimedes lived and worked. Nicastro is particularly good at debunking some of the myths surrounding one of the greatest figures in the history of science."

"The people and places around Archimedes—and the genius of the man himself—come back to life in technicolor in this marvelously vivid biography. I especially enjoyed Nicastro’s comments on ancient historical sources. He retells familiar stories with verve and fresh insight and provides quite a few laughs along the way."