Nicholas Nicastro: Archimedes, Gebunden
Archimedes
- Fulcrum of Science
- Publisher:
- Reaktion Books, 11/2024
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9781789149227
- Item number:
- 11789298
- Volume:
- 240 Pages
- Weight:
- 454 g
- Format:
- 216 x 138 mm
- Thickness:
- 23 mm
- Release date:
- 26.11.2024
- Note
-
Caution: Product is not in German language
Blurb
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.