Archimedes

Fulcrum of Science

Nicholas Nicastro

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Reaktion Books
01 December 2024

History; Ancient history: to c 500 CE

Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World

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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.

By: Nicholas Nicastro
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
ISBN: 9781789149227
ISBN 10: 1789149223
Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 01 December 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Note Chronology Prologue 1 Engineer 2 Mathematician 3 Legacy References Suggested Reading Acknowledgements Photo Acknowledgements Index

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.

Reviews for Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

'With Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science, Nick Nicastro gives us an engaging account of the life and legacy of Archimedes of Syracuse, renowned in antiquity and later for his work as a mathematician and engineer. Nicastro presents Archimedes' ideas and achievements with admirable clarity, set within the context of his time and place.' – Liba Taub, Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science, Cambridge