Archimedes of Syracuse (/ˌɑːrkɪˈmiːdiːz/ AR-kim-EE-deez; c. 287 – c. 212 BC) was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor...
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Archimedes' principle (also spelled Archimedes's principle) states that the upward buoyant force that is exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether...
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The Acorn Archimedes is a family of personal computers designed by Acorn Computers of Cambridge, England. The systems in this family use Acorn's own ARM...
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The Archimedes' screw, also known as the Archimedean screw, hydrodynamic screw, water screw or Egyptian screw, is one of the earliest hydraulic machines...
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Archimedean spiral (redirect from Archimedes' spiral)
spiral (also known as Archimedes' spiral, the arithmetic spiral) is a spiral named after the 3rd-century BC Greek mathematician Archimedes. The term Archimedean...
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Buoyancy (redirect from Archimedes's Principle)
force is proportional to the pressure difference, and (as explained by Archimedes' principle) is equivalent to the weight of the fluid that would otherwise...
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Archimedes is a genus of bryozoans belonging to the family Fenestellidae. The first use of the term "Archimedes" in relation to this genus was in 1838...
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The Archimedes Palimpsest is a parchment codex palimpsest, originally a Byzantine Greek copy of a compilation of Archimedes and other authors. It contains...
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Look up Archimedes in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece. Archimedes may also refer...
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Archimedes is a large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium. Its diameter is 81 km. The diameter of Archimedes is the largest of...
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Area of a circle (section Archimedes's proof)
to 3.14159. One method of deriving this formula, which originated with Archimedes, involves viewing the circle as the limit of a sequence of regular polygons...
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Archimedes is purported to have invented a large scale solar furnace, sometimes described as a heat ray, and used it to burn attacking Roman ships during...
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Pi (redirect from Archimedes constant)
π for practical computations. Around 250 BC, the Greek mathematician Archimedes created an algorithm to approximate π with arbitrary accuracy. In the...
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Archimedean property (redirect from Archimedes axiom)
the Archimedean property, named after the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse, is a property held by some algebraic structures, such as...
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of Archimedes (Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγη, romanized: harpágē, lit. 'snatcher'; also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to...
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Eureka (word) (redirect from Archimedes' bathtime story)
an exclamation attributed to Ancient Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes. Eureka comes from Ancient Greek εὕρηκα (heúrēka) 'I have found (it)'...
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Archimedes "Archie" Francisco Trajano (1956–1977) was a Filipino student activist during the 1972–1986 martial law regime in the Philippines. His death...
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Montes Archimedes is a mountain range on the Moon. It is named after the nearby crater Archimedes, which in turn is named after the ancient Greek mathematician...
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The Great War of Archimedes (アルキメデスの大戦, Arukimedesu no taisen) is a 2019 Japanese historical film directed and written by Takashi Yamazaki. Concerning...
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Free and open-source software portal Archimedes – "The Open CAD" – (also called Arquimedes) is a computer-aided design (CAD) program developed with direct...
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Archimedes is a liquid-fuel rocket engine burning liquid oxygen and liquid methane in an oxidizer-rich staged combustion cycle. It is designed by aerospace...
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Several ships have been named Archimedes for Archimedes: Archimedes (1797) was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the...
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Ellipsograph (redirect from Trammel of Archimedes)
an ellipse. One common form of ellipsograph is known as the trammel of Archimedes. It consists of two shuttles which are confined to perpendicular channels...
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Archimedes Group is a Tel Aviv-based private intelligence agency that has operated political campaigns using social media since 2017. The current CEO of...
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Archimedes Geo3D is a software package for dynamic geometry in three dimensions. It was released in Germany in March 2006 and won a German government award...
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Hilbert's axioms (redirect from Archimedes' axiom)
by a and A, that passes through A and does not intersect a. Axiom of Archimedes: If AB and CD are any segments then there exists a number n such that...
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Siege of Syracuse (213–212 BC) (category Archimedes)
During the siege, the city was protected by weapons developed by Archimedes. Archimedes, the prominent inventor and polymath, was slain at the conclusion...
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Archimedes Ridge [el. 1,585 ft (483 m)] is a ridge in North Slope Borough, Alaska, in the United States. Archimedes Ridge was so named because it resembles...
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Heron's formula (redirect from Heron-Archimedes formula)
his book Metrica. Mathematical historian Thomas Heath suggested that Archimedes knew the formula over two centuries earlier, and since Metrica is a collection...
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Archimedes was a steamship built in Britain in 1839. She was the world's first steamship to be driven successfully by a screw propeller. Archimedes had...
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