Archimedes and the Roman imagination /

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"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. Archi...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Jaeger, Mary, 1960-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Archimedes.
Mathematicians > Greece > Biography.
Mathematics, Ancient.
Mathématiciens > Grèce > Biographies.
Mathématiques anciennes.
MATHEMATICS > History & Philosophy.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
HISTORY > General.
Mathematicians.
Wiskundigen.
Beeldvorming.
Greece.
Sicilië.
Biographies.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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