Archimedes and the Roman imagination
| 1. Verfasser: |
Jaeger, Mary, 1960-
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
c2008.
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| Umfang/Format: |
ix, 230 p. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: | 0472116304 9780472116300 |
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| Inhalte/Bestandteile: | 1 Datensätze |
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Table of contents only Publisher description |
Inhaltsangabe:
- The "Eureka" story
- Cicero at Archimedes' tomb
- Why two spheres?
- The afterlife of the spheres from the De republica
- A sketch of events at Syracuse
- Who killed Archimedes?
- The defense of Syracuse
- Claudian on Archimedes
- Petrarch's Archimedes
- Conclusion
- Notes.
