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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.
Zakup książki
Archimedes, Nicholas Nicastro
- Język
- Rok wydania
- 2024
- Oprawa
- (twarda)
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- Tytuł
- Archimedes
- Podtytuł
- Fulcrum of Science
- Język
- angielski
- Autorzy
- Nicholas Nicastro
- Wydawca
- Reaktion Books
- Rok wydania
- 2024
- Oprawa
- twarda
- Liczba stron
- 192
- ISBN10
- 1789149223
- ISBN13
- 9781789149227
- Seria
- Kategorie
- Tagi
- Tematy historyczne, Starożytność, Grecja, Geometria, Historia nauki, Starożytna Grecja, Sycylia, Grecki, Archimedes
- Opis
- 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.