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 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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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In viscous fluid dynamics, the Archimedes number (Ar), is a dimensionless number used to determine the motion of fluids due to density differences, named...
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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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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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Archimedes's cattle problem (or the problema bovinum or problema Archimedis) is a problem in Diophantine analysis, the study of polynomial equations with...
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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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Screw turbine (redirect from Archimedes' screw turbine)
screw turbine (also known as an Archimedean turbine, Archimedes screw generator or ASG, or Archimedes screw turbine or AST) is a water turbine that converts...
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Archimedes Leonidas Attilio Patti (July 21, 1913 – April 23, 1998) was a lieutenant colonel in the United States Army and an Office of Strategic Services...
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Arthur, prompting Merlin to appoint Archimedes as Arthur's teacher. Merlin transforms Arthur into a sparrow and Archimedes teaches him how to fly. Soon after...
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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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He is best known for his discovery of previously unknown texts in the Archimedes Palimpsest, and for his edition of Euclid's Elements that T. L. Heath...
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