Archimedes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781508841845)

Archimedes is a classic science biography about the great Greek mathematician, Archimedes, by Thomas Little Heath. If the ordinary person were asked to say off-hand what he knew of Archimedes, he would probably, at the most, be able to quote one or other of the well-known stories about him: how, after discovering the solution of some problem in the bath, he was so overjoyed that he ran naked to his house, shouting Greek: eureka, eureka] (or, as we might say, "I've got it, I've got it"); or how he said "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth"; or again how he was killed, at the capture of Syracuse in the Second Punic War, by a Roman soldier who resented being told to get away from a diagram drawn on the ground which he was studying.

Author: Thomas Little Heath
ISBN-10: 1508841845
ISBN-13: 9781508841845
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/12/2015
Pages: 50
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.18lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.10d