Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)

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An archangel revealing the physical nature of the universe to a group of natural philosophers and mathematicians. Etching by James Barry, 1795, after his painting.

Archimedes Siracus. Line engraving by Remondini.

A man is handing out issues of the Mechanic's magazine to engineers, and Archimedes moving the Earth using a plank as a lever. Colour engraving, 1824.

Archimedes Siracus. Line engraving by A. Campanella after L. Agricola after Raphael.

Mathematicians and astronomers: twenty portraits. Engraving by J.W. Cook, 1825.

Archimedes Siracus. Line engraving after Raphael Sanzio.

Above, Jesus Christ and M. Georg Michaelis point to the Bible placed on an altar; below left, a man seeking that he may find; below right, Archimedes stepping out of the bath saying "Eureka". Engraving, 1733.

Archimedes of Syracuse. Photogravure by R. Paulussen after N. Barabino.

Notizie istoriche e critiche intorno alla vita, alle invenzioni ed agli scritti di Archimede Siracusano / del Co. Gian-Maria Mazzuchelli Bresciano.

Archimede : mito, tradizione, scienza Siracusa-Catania, 9-12 ottobre 1989 / a cura di Corrado Dollo.

Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption. Band 12 / Jochen Althoff, Bernhard Herzhoff, Georg Wöhrle (Hg.).

Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit ... Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl ... / Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet ... von Joh. Christoph Sturm.

Short, but yet plain elements of geometry; shewing how by a brief and easy method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Appollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies ; And render'd into English, by John Harris.

Short, but yet plain elements of geometry. Shewing how by a brief and easie method, most of what is necessary and useful in Euclid, Archimedes, Apollonius, and other excellent geometricians, both ancient and modern, may be understood / Written in French by F. Ignat. Gaston Pardies. And render'd into English, by John Harris.

Miscellanies, or Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster / published and many of them translated into English by the care and industry of John Twysden.

Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl. Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet von Johann Christoph Sturm.

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Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit ... Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl ... / Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet ... von Joh. Christoph Sturm.

Miscellanies, or Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster / published and many of them translated into English by the care and industry of John Twysden.

Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl. Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet von Johann Christoph Sturm.

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Archimedes

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Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit ... Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl ... / Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet ... von Joh. Christoph Sturm.

Miscellanies, or Mathematical lucubrations of Mr. Samuel Foster / published and many of them translated into English by the care and industry of John Twysden.

Sand-Rechnung, oder tiefsinnige Erfindung einer, mit Leichtigkeit aussprechlichen Zahl. Aus dem Griechischen in das Hochteutsche übersetzet von Johann Christoph Sturm.

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