So, Archimedes was said to have employed a pulley system that lifted the ship out of its dock. While the Syracusia was a marvel of its own, the really impressive engineering was the pulley system ...

Archimedes, a renowned inventor in Ancient Greece, proposed several captivating theories, ideas, and inventions during his lifetime, among them was a "death ray," which still fascinates many. No ...

Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions ...

Archimedes' Secret BBC Two 9.00pm Thursday 14 March 2002 This is the story of a book that could have changed the history of the World.

Nature - Archimedes' secrets revealedOnly three of Archimedes' books in the original Greek are known, two of which have been lost since first being transcribed. The third, this codex, had never ...

Archimedes computed the area of the curved figure (left) by enclosing it in a bigger one with straight edges (right). He then examined random slices to compute the volume—using the concept of ...

Archimedes’ best estimate for pi was 223 / 71 < π < 22 / 7, or two decimal places. Ptolemy calculated pi to three decimal places, and in the third century, Chinese mathematicians managed to ...

Archimedes Pharma, a British specialty drugmaker that spent the past four years expanding across Europe, now is setting up operations in Bedminster as it prepares to launch its first U.S. product ...