1001 Inventions
Edited by Salim T. S. al-Hassani
6 reading locations
Printed p. 8 PDF p. 11Reading page
“…B.C.E), Hippocr ates (460-377 B.C.E.). Aristotle (383-322 B.C.E), Archimedes (287-212 B.C.E.). * I use the term "pbuh," meaning "Peace Be Upon Him/Her" to indicate the respect paid by Muslims to the Prophet Muhammad…”
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“…jump of 1,600 years from the time of Archimedes to Gutenberg was amazing and troubling. Further reading of other books revealed that the whole period, 450-1492 C.E., is in fact passed over as…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.Printed p. 96 PDF p. 99Reading page
“…of Wisdom. The second was two works of Archimedes: On the Sphere and Cylinder and The Heptagon in the Circle. The second one is now unavailable in Greek and reaches us through the…”
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“…instructions for the construction of the regular heptagon. Archimedes had supplied a proof relating to a regular heptagon inscribed within a circle that suggests that it ought to be possi ble to construct…”
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“…walls, were fi.rst used around 200 B.C.E. by Archimedes to protect Syracuse. These long and narrow slits meant a bowman could shoot at the enemy, but be protected from returning fi.re. They were…”
Text around a matching name in the supplied edition. Extraction may retain spelling or spacing errors.Printed p. 312 PDF p. 315Biographical entry
“…(1252- 1284); son and successor of Ferdinand III. Archimedes (2 87-212 B.C.E.); Syracuse, Si cily; astronomer . Aristotle (3 83-322 B. C.E. ); Stagirus, Gr eece; philosoph er. Roger Ba con (12 14…”
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