Archimedes

Nicholas Nicastro

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.

Author(s): Nicastro, Nicholas
Binding: Hardback
Date of Publication: 16/09/2024
Pagination: 240 pages
Series: N/A
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Published By: Reaktion Books
Book Classification:
Dimensions: 216x138x23
Weight: 367
ISBN13\EAN\SKU: 9781789149227