Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those ...

Some minds, like that of third century B.C mathematician, astronomer, and inventor Archimedes of Syracuse, inadvertently left a blueprint that modern marvels picked up on and adopted into their ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

DICK:Why are you in my bath? DOM:I, I, I don't know. DICK:Ladies and gentlemen, we give you, Archimedes. ARCHIMEDES:Why are you in his bath Dom? DICK:'Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard.

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

It was a brand-new Acorn Archimedes, probably an A300, and it was the first time I had used an operating system with a desktop GUI. The computer was the first consumer application of the ARM ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

as they learn new ideas in math, science, and history. “The Science of Archimedes” ― running through June 1 ― is a largely hands-on exhibit that delves into the life and discoveries of the ...