Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

Archimedes and the Roman Imagination

by Mary Jaeger
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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, tha.

First published
2013
Publishers
University of Michigan Press
Subjects
Archimedes·Mathematicians·Biography·Mathematics·Ancient·Greece·Biography

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