![]() ![]() snatcher also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by. ![]() Includes bibliographical references and index.Ī Writer's reasons - There's more to this story - Birthing a universe - Telling it like they thought it was: myths of creation - Making days: were the calendar makers lunatics or just moonstruck? - Ionia? What's Ionia? - The "A" team - Elementary matters: earth, air, fire, and water, says Empedocles - Being at sea - Worshiping numbers - Pythagoras knows it's round - Getting atom - Aristotle and his teacher - Does it change? No way, says A - Aristarchus got it right-well, almost! - Alexander's city - What's a hero? - Euclid in his elements - Archimedes' claw - Measuring the Earth - Rome rules - Longitude and latitude plus two Greek mapmakers - The greatest - A saint who was no scientist - No joke-the Earth is pancake flat! - Don't worry-the round Earth is back! - Absolute zero - An "ox" who bellowed - Books will do it - The Antipodes: discovering down under - Cosmic voyagers: is it fiction, or could it be true? - Finally! How science works - The prime number sieve of Eratosthenes. Some of these titanic machines seem to have been stone throwers or large crossbows, but the ancient historians tell of other inventions. Archimedes was a great legend of the ancient time Archimedes of Syracuse, dated back to c. The Claw of Archimedes (Ancient Greek:, romanized: harpg, lit. ![]() Outside, the claw was capable of picking up entire Roman ships and plunging them. One of the war machines Archimedes created was a giant iron claw, operated by virtually the entire population of Syracuse from inside the city's walls. 212 BC) was a Greek scientist.He was an inventor, an astronomer, and a mathematician.He was born in the town of Syracuse in Sicily. A Writer's reasons - There's more to this story - Birthing a universe - Telling it like they thought it was: myths of creation - Making days: were the calendar makers lunatics or just moonstruck? - Ionia? What's Ionia? - The "A" team - Elementary matters: earth, air, fire, and water, says Empedocles - Being at sea - Worshiping numbers - Pythagoras knows it's round - Getting atom - Aristotle and his teacher - Does it change? No way, says A - Aristarchus got it right-well, almost! - Alexander's city - What's a hero? - Euclid in his elements - Archimedes' claw - Measuring the Earth - Rome rules - Longitude and latitude plus two Greek mapmakers - The greatest - A saint who was no scientist - No joke-the Earth is pancake flat! - Don't worry-the round Earth is back! - Absolute zero - An "ox" who bellowed - Books will do it - The Antipodes: discovering down under - Cosmic voyagers: is it fiction, or could it be true? - Finally! How science works - The prime number sieve of Eratosthenes. Archimedes used his knowledge of physics to fend off Roman ships approaching the fortified walls of Syracuse. ![]()
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