Article ID: CBB000500901

Archimedes's Iron Hand or Claw---A New Interpretation of an Old Mystery (2004)

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Description On a device used to lift Roman ships out of the water during the Second Punic War.


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Authors & Contributors
Netz, Reviel
Geymonat, Mario
Cuomo, Serafina
Zhao, Jiwei
Yusta, Piedad
Wilson, Nigel G.
Journals
Sciamvs: Sources and Commentaries in Exact Sciences
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Polhem: Tidskrift för Teknikhistoria
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Notices of the American Mathematical Society
Journal of Dialectics of Nature
Publishers
Cambridge University Press
Walker & Company
University of Michigan Press
Baylor University Press
Real Sociedad Matemática Española
Concepts
Mathematics
Geometry
Biographies
Philosophy
Technology
Transmission of texts
People
Archimedes
Euclid
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig
Eutocios
Catullus, Gaius Valerius
Aristotle
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Denmark
Babylon (extinct city)
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