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Using a different approach, Archimedes found the surface area of a sphere, and the surface area of any segment of a sphere.
The wreath was supposedly made of pure gold, and Archimedes had to determine whether the goldsmith had replaced some of the gold with silver.
This would be an improvement on Antiphon's argument and Bryson is getting close to the method of exhaustion as rigorously applied by Archimedes.
He developed the science of hydrostatics and invented the Archimedes screw, a device used to lift water.
By the time of Archimedes, it is likely that screws of wood already were being used for vises and for fruit presses.
Archimedes also gave an accurate approximation to p and showed that he could approximate square roots accurately.
In the third century BC, the famous Greek mathematician Archimedes issued a challenge to the Alexandrian mathematicians, headed by Eratosthenes.
Now the student is not learning to repeat the words, or the formulas, or the constructions of Archimedes.
The pedal of the involute of a circle, with the centre as pedal point, is a Spiral of Archimedes.
Nothing in the laws of physics would have precluded Archimedes from building and employing this extraordinary defensive weapon.
Indeed Archimedes was famous for his application of the law of the lever to the construction of catapults for military purposes.
In mechanics Archimedes discovered fundamental theorems concerning the centre of gravity of plane figures and solids.
His methods for calculating lengths of arcs of circles were more sophisticated than the Greek methods of Archimedes.
There is no evidence whatsoever that Archimedes invented the Archimedean screw.
Just now I have a still small but better understanding of why Archimedes ran out of that bathhouse buck naked.
According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
Looking at it for the first time it reminded me of Archimedes jumping out of the bathtub and shouting Eureka!
And Archimedes proved from his axioms on the lever that two unequal weights balance at distances from the fulcrum that are inversely proportional to their weights.
When Archimedes defines a spiral, he gives fundamental properties connecting the length of the radius vector with the angles through which it has revolved.
Archimedes held that he could lift the earth if he had a lever long enough, and an extraplanetary fulcrum to rest it on.
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Archimedean Screw, a machine for raising water, said to have been invented by Archimedes.
For a slate or blackboard, he used the beach, as did Archimedes of the olden time.
The drawing in brown upon the socle beneath this fresco, is by Pierino del Vaga, and represents the death of Archimedes.
Archimedes was so much in love with the studies of his profession, that, etc., etc.
Archimedes had propounded the theory of the lever, and the principles of hydrostatics.
It is singular that no cyclometer maintains that Archimedes hit it exactly.
In hydrostatics, Stevinus had extended and applied the discovery of Archimedes.
Archimedes had, according to Apuleius, treated of the rainbow and the mock sun in connexion with his researches into mirrors.
Thus he appeared in the doorway of his counting-room as Mr. mook came down the street, and passed the Archimedes Works.
The noria, a chain of pots, and the screw of Archimedes were other forms of ancient pumps.
Archimedes proves that the volume of the solid so cut off is one sixth part of the volume of the parallelepiped.
It came sailing from Archimedes, a dark shape blurring the stars.
Thou art the lever with which Archimedes was to lift the earthly sphere!
Archimedes said he could lift the world with a lever if he had a fulcrum.
Lastly, Archimedes invented the whole science of hydrostatics.
This theorem is called generally the principle of Archimedes.
This, of course, is merely a restatement of the law of Archimedes.
It skimmed the Apennines and landed not far from Archimedes.
Archimedes was the first independent Forest School Training company in the country and is the largest, training and supporting people all over the world.
He was drawing in this circle geometrical lines, and seemed as much absorbed in his problem as Archimedes was when the soldier of Marcellus slew him.
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