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Archimedes and the Roman Imagination.
The great mathematician Archimedes, a Sicilian Greek whose machines defended Syracuse against the Romans during the Second Punic War, was killed by a Roman after the city fell, yet it is largely Roman sources, and Greek texts aimed at Roman audiences, that preserve the stories about him. Archimedes&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Michigan Press
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The "Eureka" story
- Cicero at Archimedes' tomb
- Why two spheres?
- The afterlife of the spheres from the De republica
- A sketch of events at Syracuse
- Who killed Archimedes?
- The defense of Syracuse
- Claudian on Archimedes
- Petrarch's Archimedes
- Conclusion
- Notes.