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archimedes
/ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdiːz/
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What does archimedes mean?
proper noun
- A transliteration of the Ancient Greek male given name Ἀρχιμήδης (Arkhimḗdēs), notably borne by Archimedes of Syracuse, an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist and engineer (c. 287–212 BCE).
- A large lunar impact crater on the eastern edges of the Mare Imbrium.
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/ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdiːz/
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Such was Archimedes, who now showed himself, and, so far as lay in him, the city also, invincible.
Plutarch speaks of optical instruments used by Archimedes "to manifest to the eye the largeness of the sun."
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This trifling variation is the fulcrum for which Archimedes clamoured in order to lift the world with his system of levers.
She was then fitted with the same kind of screw as the Archimedes, that is, a double-headed screw of half a convolution.
It was as a student of the lever and the pulley that Archimedes was led to some of his greatest mechanical discoveries.