Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science

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: Nicholas Nicastro
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Published: 11/26/2024
Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.82lbs
Size: 8.77h x 5.85w x 0.83d
ISBN: 9781789149227
Language: English