Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science (Great Lives of the Ancient World)

ISBN: 1789149223

Author: Nicastro, Nicholas

Condition: New

A bold reimagining of the Greek mathematicians singular life as a truly modern scientist.Galileo, Leonardo, Newton, and Tesla revered him: Archimedes of Syracuse-an engineer who single-handedly defied the worlds 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 worlds first fully modern scientist-millennia before his intellectual descendants transformed our world.