Archimedes and the Roman imagination
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| Lingua: | inglese |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
c2008.
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Sommario:
- 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.