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Archimedes: Reception in the Renaissance

Abstract

With only Apuleius and Augustine as partial exceptions, Latin Antiquity did not know Archimedes as a mathematician but only as an ingenious engineer and astronomer, serving his city and killed by fatal distraction when in the end it was taken by ruse. The Latin Middle Ages forgot even much of that, and when Archimedean mathematics was translated in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, almost no integration with the traditional image of the person took place.

With the exception of Petrarca, who knew the civically useful engineer and the astrologer, fourteenth-century Humanists show no interest in Archimedes. In the fifteenth century, “higher artisans” with Humanist connections or education took interest in Archimedes the technician and started identifying with him. In mid-century, a new translation of most works from the Greek was made by Jacopo Cremonensis, and Regiomontanus and a few other mathematicians began resurrecting the image of the geometer, yet without emulating him.

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Archimedes

  • 1. ARCHIMEDES By Beatriz Martínez Rodríguez, 1º C ESO

  • 2. Index  Biography  Hydrostatics  Principle of levers  Hydraulic Screw  Conclusion

  • 3. Biography Archimedes was born in Syracuse in 287 B.C. He spent most of his life there except for the time he went to Alexandria to study because this was important for his family.

  • 4. Biography  He got the opportunity to continued his studies in a famous school of Mathematics. Archimedes grew up to be a great scientist.  He made great discoveries in Geometry, Mechanics, and established the Sciences of Statics and Hydrostatics.  He formulated a law of Fluid Displacement (Archimedes' principle), and is credited with the invention of the Archimedes screw, a cylindrical pump for raising water.

  • 5. Hydrostatics  King Hiero decided to order a golden crown but he heard that the crown wasn’t made of gold and silver. Hiero trusted his cousin Archimedes to prove it.  Archimedes accepted the mission and he discovered the solution. He started shouting `Eureka, Eureka`, and he ran without clothes on.

  • 6. Hydros
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    Archimedes

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