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.

About the author

Nicholas Nicastro is a novelist and science writer with articles in the New York Times, New York Observer, and others. His books include Circumference: Eratosthenes and the Ancient Quest to Measure the Globe.

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Nicastro, Nicastro Nicholas
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2024
• EAN: 9781789149227
• ISBN: 978-1-78914-922-7
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Great Lives of the Ancient World
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE