Archimedes

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Top Authors

The main authors on Archimedes by number of books and editions:

Author Books & Editions
Terry Deary 2
Alan Hirshfeld 2
Mario Geymonat 1
E. J. Dijksterhuis 1
Gillian Bradshaw 1
Ivo Schneider 1
Jeanne Bendick 1
John Wain 1
Maggie Freeman 1
Padraic Fallon 1

Books

There are the 17 books on the Archimedes subject with a total 19 editions:

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Here are the most edited ones:

Title Author Editions
Eureka man : the life and legacy of Archimedes Alan Hirshfeld 2
The lion's slave Terry Deary 2
Archimedes E. J. Dijksterhuis 1
The sand-reckoner Gillian Bradshaw 1
The great Archimedes Mario Geymonat 1
The circles of Archimedes Padraic Fallon 1
The beast in the labyrinth Toby Roberts 1
Great Archimedes Maggie Freeman 1
Beyond Newton and Archimedes Ajay Sharma 1
Archimedes Peter Lafferty 1
Archimedes, about 287-212 B.C. : his life, work and experiments Sydney Gordon 1
Archimedes and the door of science Jeanne Bendick 1
Archimedes and the Roman imagination Mary Jaeger 1
Archimedes : what did he do beside cry eureka? Sherman K. Stein 1
Archimedes : Ingenieur, Naturwissenschaftler, Mathematiker Ivo Schneider 1
Archimedes & the fulcrum Paul Strathern 1
Three scientists of the ancient world : Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia John Wain 1

Authors

The 20 authors in this series in our database:

Author Books
Tofigh Heidarzadeh 2
Ad Meskens 2
Steffen Ducheyne 1
Shuwei Xu 1
Russell McCormmach 1
Robert Goulding 1
Pietro Daniel Omodeo 1
Nathan Sivin 1
Lloyd Ackert 1
Leo Corry 1
A. F. Chalmers 1
Jose Chabaas 1
John M. Steele 1
Jean-Marc Ginoux 1
Gregor Schiemann 1
Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis 1
Dong-Won Kim 1
Christa Jungnickel 1
Alexander Jones 1
Kaveh Niazi 1

Books

The 22 books in this series in our database:

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Here are 11 of them:

Title Year
Lenses and waves : Christiaan Huygens and the mathematical science of optics in the seventeenth century 2004
Hermann von Helmholtz's mechanism : the loss of certainty : a study on the transition from classical to modern philosophy of nature 2009
A history of physical theories of comets, from Aristotle to Whipple 2008
Ptolemy in perspective : use and criticism of his work from antiquity to the nineteenth century 2010
Defending Hypatia : Ramus, Savile and the Renaissance rediscovery of mathematical history 2010
The Alfonsine tables of Toledo 2011
David Hilbert and the axiomatization of physics (1898-1918) : from grundlagen der geometrie to grundlagen der physik 2011
Observations and predictions of eclipse times by early astronomers 2011
Leadership and creativity : a history of the Cavendish Laboratory, 1871-1919 2011
Weighing the world : the Reverend John Michell of Thornhill 2012
The main business of natural philosophy : Isaac Newton's natural-philosophical methodology 2012
A history of physical theories of comets, from Aristotle to Whipple 2011
Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis : mathematical life in late 16th century Antwerp 2013
Sergei Vinogradskii and the cycle of life : from the thermodynamics of life to ecological microbiology, 1850-1950 2013
Practical mathematics in a commercial metropolis : mathematical life in late 16th century Antwerp 2015
Health care in eleventh-century China 2015
The second physicist : on the history of theoretical physics in Germany 2017
History of nonlinear oscillations theory in France (1880-1940) 2017
One hundred years of pressure : hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton 2017
Medical practice in twelfth-century China : a translation of Xu Shuwei's Ninety discussions [cases] on cold damage disorders 2019
A princely pandect on astronomy : Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūs̄i's Mu'iniya Epistle and its appendix 2022
Defending Descartes in Brandenburg-Prussia : the University of Frankfurt An Der Oder in the seventeenth century 2022

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