Archimedes and the Roman Imagination.

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, that preserve the stories about him. Archimedes&...

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	University of Michigan Press 2010.