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...arge (aqueducts, buildings, baths, harbours) and small (machines, measuring devices, instruments). He is also the prime source of the famous story of Archimedes and his bath-time discovery. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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...OUNTER JOURNAL - 70 STATE OF THINGS - 71 SAD JOYS - 72 PRAYER - 73 A LIFE - 74 FROM THE SUN PLOWS, WE TEAR / ONLY THE SNOW - 75 AN EXTENSION OF ARCHIMEDES PRINCIPLE / OR / FLORENTIN'S PRINCIPLE- 76 THE TEACHINGS OF FLORENTIN SMARANDACHE TO HIS SON MIHAI - 77 EPILOGUE - 78 Short Comment by Gheorghe Tomozei – back cover...

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...C) - GREEK MATHEMATICIAN 272 ERATOSTHENES (276 - 196 BC) - GREEK ASTRONOMER AND GEOGRAPHER 272 EUCLID (325 - 270 BC)- GREEK MATHEMATICIAN 272 ARCHIMEDES (287 - 212 BC) GREEK MATHEMATICIAN AND PHYSICIST 273 CLAUDIUS PTOLEMY (100 - 170 AC) - GREEK ASTRONOMER 275 CTESIBIUS (285 - 222 BC)- GREEK INVENTOR 275 THE MEDIEVAL ERA AND THE PHYSICAL WORLD 276 THE ITAL...

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...her 84 DEMOCRITUS (470 - 380 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 EMPEDOCLES (492 - 432 BC) Greek Philosopher 84 EUCLID (325 - 270 BC) Greek Mathematician 85 ARCHIMEDES (287 - 212 BC) Greek Mathematician and Engineer 85 ERATOSTHENES (276 - 196 BC) Greek Astronomer 85 HIPPOCRATES (460 - 370 BC) Greek Physician 87 ARISTOTLE (384 - 322 BC) Greek Philosopher and Naturalist 87 THEO...

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...for ―Silk Road‖ and Wikipedia for ―Kublai Khan‖ CHAPTER 11 ―If only he (Archimedes) had made that discovery! To what heights science would have ri... ... of mathematicians. One of the greatest of all time, he was an admirer of Archimedes, the Greek who mastered the math of areas and volumes and found... ...ydraulics in Aristotle‘s time. In the mid-1800s, however, Gauss decried Archimedes‘s failure two millennia earlier to adopt the convenient notatio...

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... for ―Silk Road‖ and Wikipedia for ―Kublai Khan‖ CHAPTER 11 If only he (Archimedes) had made that discovery! To what heights science would have ri... ... of mathematicians. One of the greatest of all time, he was an admirer of Archimedes, the Greek who mastered the math of areas and volumes and found... ... hydraulics in Aristotle‘s time. In the mid-1800s, however, Gauss decried Archimedes‘s failure two millennia earlier to adopt the convenient notatio...

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... and why we are... "every YES must to lean upon a NO (otherwise what Archimedes' lever would lean upon?)" (Ion Rotaru). Philosophy is not soli...

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... among individuals.) "Every YES must to lean upon a NO (Otherwise, what Archimedes' lever would lean upon?)," (Ion Rotaru). (This is not absolute,...

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...15. Are there so many books in the public domain? And what then? Michael: Archimedes said, "give me a lever long enough, and I will move the world." ...

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... is? A fire (saith he), an Artist fit to engender and proceeding orderly. Archimedes, master of this Science, and who in truth and certaintie assumet... ...ons are not worth your meanest dish. Suppose they were the entrancings of Archimedes himself, and what of that? I here touch not nor doe I blend wit...

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...ation? When true Science was born in Greece over 2,000 years ago. What were Archimedes’s most famous discoveries? The dynamics of mechanical adva... ... tool-abstract insanity. Now researchers have found that the lost papers of Archimedes… showing that he had had actually developed a mathematics fo...

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...ry of Omar’s Grave, was reminded, he says, of Cicero’ s Account of finding Archimedes’ T omb at Syracuse, buried in grass and weeds. I think Thorwald...

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...previous glory; all which, how- ever, were, it would seem, but trifles for Archimedes and his machines. These machines he had designed and contrived, ... ...epudiated and neglected by philosophers, took its place as a military art. Archimedes, however, in writ- ing to king Hiero, whose friend and near rela... ... astonished at this, and convinced of the power of the art, prevailed upon Archimedes to make him engines accommodated to all the purposes, offensive ... ...that nothing was able to resist that vio- lence and those forces. But when Archimedes began to ply his engines, he at once shot against the land force... ... up under the walls, if it were pos- sible, in the night; thinking that as Archimedes used ropes stretched at length in playing his engines, the soldi... ...nother; while they them- selves were not able to retaliate in any way. For Archimedes had provided and fixed most of his engines immediately under the... ...ythology?” And, doubtless, the rest of the Syracusans were but the body of Archimedes’ designs, one soul moving and governing all; for, laying aside a... ... the wall, instantly crying out, that there it was 512 V olume One again, Archimedes was about to let fly some engine at them, they turned their back... ...ted from conflicts and assaults, putting all his hope in a long siege. Yet Archimedes possessed so high a spirit, so profound a soul, and such treasur...

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...ung, the thun- dering or the tender vocal chords. Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded person with a mathematical imagi...

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...Of note belonging to that honoured isle, Philosopher or Bard, Empedocles, Or Archimedes, pure abstracted soul! That doth not yield a solace to my grie...

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... lung, the thundering or the tender vocal chords. Don’t talk to me of your Archimedes’ lever. He was an absent-minded per- son with a mathematical ima...

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...superadds itself to sight; on the so petty domain of the Actual plants its Archimedes-lever, whereby to move at will the infinite Spiritual. Fantasy I...

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...ote belonging to that honored isle, Philosopher or bard, Empedocles, 1020 Or Archimedes—deep and tranquil soul— That is not like a comfort to my grief...

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...es him from the head-clerkship, a distance which no mathematician, neither Archimedes, nor Leibnitz, nor Laplace has ever reckoned, the distance that ...

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... hundred years before it was first brought into use. And earlier still was Archimedes of Syracuse, and still earlier the legendary Daedalus of Cnossos...