Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science: Great Lives of the Ancient World
Autor Nicholas Nicastroen Limba Engleză Hardback – 26 noi 2024
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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781789149227
ISBN-10: 1789149223
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 35 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
ISBN-10: 1789149223
Pagini: 240
Ilustrații: 35 halftones
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: REAKTION BOOKS
Colecția Reaktion Books
Seria Great Lives of the Ancient World
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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.
Recenzii
"A lively biography of Archimedes . . . driven by a desire both to make Archimedes an exception in ancient science and to link him to the modern era."
“As Nicholas Nicastro points out in his biography, the stories that circulate about Archimedes aren’t necessarily reliable . . . Archimedes was . . . a scientist who combined theory with practical know-how [and Nicastro] invokes Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo in support.”
“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."