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archimedes

/ˌɑːɹkɪˈmiːdiːz/

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What does archimedes mean?

proper noun

  1. 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).
  2. 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.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
Plutarch speaks of optical instruments used by Archimedes "to manifest to the eye the largeness of the sun."
Ignatius DonnellyAtlantis: The Antedeluvian WorldProject Gutenberg ebook #4032
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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.
Jean-Henri FabreBramble-Bees and OthersTranslated by Alexander Teixeira de MattosProject Gutenberg ebook #3421
She was then fitted with the same kind of screw as the Archimedes, that is, a double-headed screw of half a convolution.
Samuel SmilesMen of Invention and IndustryProject Gutenberg ebook #725
It was as a student of the lever and the pulley that Archimedes was led to some of his greatest mechanical discoveries.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705