How To Use Archimedes In A Sentence
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Archimedes: But I told you, I wasn't with my catamite
Jilly Gagnon: Moments of Great Genius
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And Archimedes proved from his axioms on the lever that two unequal weights balance at distances from the fulcrum that are inversely proportional to their weights.
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Indeed Archimedes was famous for his application of the law of the lever to the construction of catapults for military purposes.
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Transcendental philosophy started with Descartess philosophical principle which makes the world objective in subjectivity with "transcendental self" as the Archimedess point.
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At the end of the treatment period, the bone volume and density of the femurs were measured by Archimedes' principle.
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By the time of Archimedes, it is likely that screws of wood already were being used for vises and for fruit presses.
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Now the student is not learning to repeat the words, or the formulas, or the constructions of Archimedes.
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When I looked at the insular P----, and his active rod, I thought him like to Archimedes who had found his extramundane spot of ground, and, as he threw the fly, and bent his back to let it touch the water lightly, was endeavouring to fasten his lever to the base of the adjacent mountain in order to consummate his wish of raising the world; and the circumfluous R---- with his long tackle, that hissed when he cast it with the petulance of an angry switch, appeared an ocean god, who had selected a shorter route to the North Cape by the
A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition
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Euclid and Archimedes utilized two important techniques to prove theorems from their axioms: reductio ad absurdum arguments, and a method of exhaustion.
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Archimedes stroked his beard and retired to cogitate.
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To Archimedes came a way to calculate density and volume; to Descartes, the idea of coordinate geometry; and to Newton, the law of universal gravity.
A Wandering Mind Heads Straight Toward Insight
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The pedal of the involute of a circle, with the centre as pedal point, is a Spiral of Archimedes.
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Archimedean point is metaphor derived from Archimedes' alleged saying that if he had a fulcrum and a lever, he could move the earth.
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The pedal of the involute of a circle, with the centre as pedal point, is a Spiral of Archimedes.
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Strongly attracted by scientific and mathematical research, in the 1970s she experimented with engravings in copper and white metal, in which dynamical systems of curves, Archimedes’s spirals and wide or concentrical spaces alternate.
Paola Levi-Montalcini.
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In his Euclid a series of references is provided to the arithmetical treatises; several portions of his Archimedes are strictly related to his works on Apollonius and on conic sections, the latter referring in turn to researches in gnomonics.
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He developed the science of hydrostatics and invented the Archimedes screw, a device used to lift water.
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LiuWei shape . mental Euclid, Archimedes comparable.
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Half the population here have names as unchristian quite – Norma, Odoacer, Archimedes – my housemaid is called Themis – but Dionea seemed to scandalize every one, perhaps because these good folk had a mysterious instinct that the name is derived from Dione, one of the loves of Father Zeus, and mother of no less a lady than the goddess Venus.
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He was teaching Boyle's Law and Archimedes' Principle to coy, simpering 13-year-olds who giggled at everything he said.
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There are a lot of good horses in the race, but Archimedes would be my pick.
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Archimedes also gave an accurate approximation to p and showed that he could approximate square roots accurately.
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Walters Art Museum/Owner of The Archimedes Palimpsest This 13th-century prayer book was made by scraping the original text off the parchment paper, removing the binding, rotating the pages 90 degrees and rebinding the pages in book form.
Reading Beneath the Lines
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In mechanics Archimedes discovered fundamental theorems concerning the centre of gravity of plane figures and solids.
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
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The distinctive feature of his _Vera quadratura_ is his use of an infinite converging series, a plan that Archimedes used with the parabola.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II)
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Nothing in the laws of physics would have precluded Archimedes from building and employing this extraordinary defensive weapon.
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Angeli examined fluid statics based on Archimedes' principle and Torricelli's experiments.
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The program dealt with the decipherment of a long-lost manuscript of Archimedes entitled ‘On the Method of Mechanical Theorems.’
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`I didn't realize Archimedes spoke in the Doric ," I smiled.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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His methods for calculating lengths of arcs of circles were more sophisticated than the Greek methods of Archimedes.
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A certain Chever also performed sundry singular mathematical feats, such as squaring the circle, a problem which he reduced to the single question, _Construere mundum divinae menti analogum_, and showing that the parabola, the only conic section squared by ancient or modern geometers, could never be quadrated, to the eternal discomfiture and discredit of the shade of Archimedes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 20, June, 1859
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The most notable characteristic of Archimedes' mathematical work is its freedom from the trammels of traditional Greek mathematics.
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Maclaurin appealed to the geometrical methods of the ancient Greeks and to Archimedes' method of exhaustion in attempting to put Newton's calculus on a rigorous footing.
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The farmers there still use the 'Archimedes Screw', an ancient device for raising water from a lake or well.
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The specific gravity is measured by Archimedes' principle.
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It had been a historical commonplace to view the long interval between Archimedes and Galileo as a period of unrelieved ignorance and superstition.
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Differencing these two quantities, following the principle of Archimedes, we arrive at what is called the 'freeboard'.
RedOrbit News - Technology
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Darlington teamed up with visualist Emmanuel Biard and engineer David Leonard to create the machine, which goes by the name Archimedes.
Wired Top Stories
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We call these solids Archimedean globes in honor of Archimedes, who treated the case n = 4.
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There are a lot of good horses in the race, but Archimedes would be my pick.
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˜Eureka™ said to have accompanied Archimedes 'discovery of a principle of hydrostatics is but an extreme example.
Collingwood's Aesthetics
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The wreath was supposedly made of pure gold, and Archimedes had to determine whether the goldsmith had replaced some of the gold with silver.
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In 1906 the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg discovered the palimpsest in a monastery in Istanbul and correctly identified the prayer-enshrouded text as the lost Method of Archimedes.
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This would be an improvement on Antiphon's argument and Bryson is getting close to the method of exhaustion as rigorously applied by Archimedes.
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His most famous theorem gives the weight of a body immersed in a liquid, called Archimedes' principle.
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Archimedes; and while he was studying the hydrostatical treatise [3] of the Syracusan philosopher, he wrote his essay on the hydrostatical balance, [4] in which he describes the construction of the instrument, and the method by which Archimedes detected the fraud committed by the jeweller in the composition of Hiero's crown.
The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler
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According to Plutarch, Archimedes used a polypaston, or block and tackle, with a large number of sheaves.
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NizßmÝ tells that Alexander invented the steel mirror, by which he means, of course, that improved reflectors were used for telescopy in the days of Archimedes, but not early enough to have assisted JßmshÝd, who belongs to the fabulous and unchronicled age.
Arabian nights. English
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Archimedes showed that the sphere is the most efficient solid figure.
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The folks at Archimedes initially built their stuff for CD ROM.
