He also devised a system of mirrors that focused the sun's light on enemy ships, setting the ships on fire. After the Romans successfully captured the city in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by a ...
When I stood on a platform to see the vast array of heliostats in the Gobi Desert near Dunhuang, where 12,000 mirrors track ...
The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...
DOM:I mean there's no doubt, Archimedes was a really clever bloke. DICK:Look there's something else here. "He set to catch the full rays of the sun at noon." He's saying here that he set fire to ...
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