archimedes of syracuse

A young Archimedes is the protagonist of our next book, The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw, set during the time of the first siege of Syracuse at 264 BC – join our chat on Wednesday, December 17.

Wikipedia (as usual handle with care) has an extensive page about Archimedes of Syracuse.

There is also another Archimedes site, "a collection of Archimedean miscellanea under continual development with the following contents . . . "  It includes pages about the then Royal Family of Syracuse.

The Internet Archive has The Works Of Archimedes. (Free) subscription may be required.

In 2001 I wrote a brief review of the novel.

An engraving from Mechanics Magazine published in London in 1824.

All images courtesy Wikimedia Commons