Archimedes
Autor(a) de Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus
About the Author
Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor, born in Syracuse, Sicily, about 287 B.C. He became famous for his law of the lever and for inventing the catapult, parabolic mirror, and the mechanical crane that was capable of capsizing a ship by overturning it. These inventions were designed to defend mostrar mais Syracuse during the Second Punic War, which were waged between Rome and Carthage. While Archimedes made fundamental contributions to physics, his greatest contributions were to theoretical mathematics. Some of his works have come down to us. When Syracuse was taken in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by the Roman soldiers, being at the time intent upon a mathematical problem. mostrar menos
Obras por Archimedes
Britannica Great Books: Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, Nicomachus (1952) — Contribuidor — 365 exemplares
The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary (2004) 49 exemplares
Sobre les conoides i les esferes; La mesura del cercle; La quadratura de la paràbola (2016) 7 exemplares
Archimēdēs ta mechri nyn sōzomena hapanta. Archimedis Syracusani philosophi ac geometrae excellentissimi opera, quae (1972) 7 exemplares
Archimède. De la sphère et du cylindre - La mesure du cercle - Sur les conoïdes et les… (2015) 6 exemplares
Des corps flottans- stomachion-le method-le livre del lemnes-le probleme des boeuf (2002) 3 exemplares
Des spirales - De l'equilibre des figures planes - L'arenaire - Le quadrature de la parabole (1971) 3 exemplares
El método relativo a los teoremas mecánicos : la vida heuristica de los descubrimientos matemáticos de Arquímedes (0250) 2 exemplares
Floating Bodies 2 exemplares
Tratados II. Sobre las líneas espirales · Sobre el equilibrio de las figuras planas · Arenario · Cuadratura de la… (2009) 2 exemplares
Sobre l’esfera i el cilindre 1 exemplar
Tratados I. Sobre la esfera y el cilindro · Medida del círculo · Sobre los conoides y esferoides / Comentarios… (2005) 1 exemplar
On Floating Bodies 1.1-2 1 exemplar
El Método 1 exemplar
Archimède. Des corps flottants - Stomachion - La méthode - Le livre des lemmes - Le problème des… 1 exemplar
Opere 1 exemplar
Archimedes: Selected Works 1 exemplar
On the Equilibrium of Planes 1 exemplar
Opera omnia, cum commentariis Eutocii 1 exemplar
Measurement of a Circle 1 exemplar
On Conoids and Spheroids 1 exemplar
On Spirals 1 exemplar
Quadrature of the Parabola 1 exemplar
The Arenarius of Archimedes, Translated From the Greek, With Notes and Illustrations. To Which is Added, the… (2018) 1 exemplar
Book of Lemmas 1 exemplar
Archimedis Opera omnia. 4, Über einander berührende Kreise : mit 14 Faksililetafeln / aus dem Arab. übers. u. mit… (1975) 1 exemplar
Various 1 exemplar
The Life of Pi 1 exemplar
from: The Cattle Problem 1 exemplar
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- Data de nascimento
- 287 BC (ca)
- Data de falecimento
- 212 BC (ca)
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- Greece
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- ISBN
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