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Archimedes in the 21st Century

Part of the Trends in the History of Science Book Series

Editors: Rorres, Chris

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-58059-3

ISBN: 978-3-319-58058-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 27, 2017

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Chapter 1Archimedes the Pragmatic Engineer

Kam, Moshe

Pages: 1 –19

[I introduce Archimedes in the broader context of key inventions in antiquity, and review some of his most celebrated inventions and writings. It is remarkable that many of these continue to be of interest and practical use more than 2000 years after their introduction (e.g., Archimedes’...
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Chapter 2Archimedes the Military Engineer

Ferreiro, Larrie D.

Pages: 21 –39

[Archimedes was not the first engineer to apply the principles of defense-in-depth to a military campaign, but his unique and systematic approach to the problem caught the attention of his contemporaries as well as that of future generations. Indeed, David Lane, historian of operations research,...
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Chapter 3Archimedes the Geometer

Mnatsakanian, Mamikon

Pages: 41 –61

[Archimedes was a physicist, engineer, mathematician, and astronomer—but above all he was a geometer. He requested that the geometric result he was most proud of—that first revealed the volume and surface area of a sphere—be inscribed on his tombstone. This result is now known as his Tombstone...
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Chapter 4Archimedes the Mathematician

Rorres, Chris

Pages: 63 –76

[Although Archimedes’ fame among the general populace in antiquity was based on his military machines, inventions, and legends, he earned his true immortality through his mathematical works. Here I discuss some of Archimedes’ mathematical ideas that are being used and applied twenty-three...
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Chapter 5Archimedes and Ship Design

Nowacki, Horst

Pages: 77 –112

[In his written work Archimedes’ primary contributions to ship design were the law of buoyancy and the criterion of stabilityStability of a floating object. These laws form the foundations of the floatability and upright stability of ships. How did he create and justify this fundamental...
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Chapter 6Archimedes Screw in the Twenty-First Century

Nuernbergk, Dirk M.

Pages: 113 –124

[This article gives a short review of the Archimedes screw and its application in different areas of water pumping and water-power generation.]
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Chapter 7Archimedes, Astronomy, and the Planetarium

Wright, Michael T.

Pages: 125 –141

[I present, in the form of a working model, a reconstruction of the planetarium instrument that CiceroAICicero ascribes to Archimedes. I argue for the adoption in its design of toothed gearing and of mechanism furnishing retrograde episodes for the planets, while accepting that the instrument...
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Chapter 8Archimedes in the Twenty-First Century Imagination

Jaeger, Mary

Pages: 143 –152

[Any discussion of Archimedes in the twenty-first century imagination must reach backward into the twentieth, because so much recent work arises from or responds to the sale of the codex containing the Archimedes Palimpsest at Christie’s in New York, on October 28, 1998, and its installation in...

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