Archimedes.

Archimedes!

Archimedes' formula.

Robby, emergency cancellation Archimedes.

And shouted Archimedes' famous last words

And so it is with Archimedes, the great Greek mathematician.

And Archimedes Codex C was just one of those seven.

And here are two different images of the Archimedes manuscript.

He took apart the Archimedes manuscript and the other seven manuscripts.

Now we weren't actually going to put Archimedes in that beam.

During this siege, the ingenuity of Archimedes' machines defeated all Roman attacks.

The Archimedes text is dark in one image and bright in another.

Well one of the unique texts in Archimedes is called The Stomachion.

But no one knew what Archimedes was doing with these 14 bits.

He raised his hand with anger and shouted Archimedes' famous last words

The relatively few copies of Archimedes' written work that survived through the Middle Ages were an influential source of ideas for scientists during the Renaissance, while the discovery in 1906 of previously unknown works by Archimedes in the Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into how he obtained mathematical results.

And so before we could start imaging Archimedes, we had to take this book apart.

Archimedes' principle indicates that the upward buoyant force which is exerted on a body immersed in fluid,

So he gathered around himself the friends of Archimedes, and he promised to pay for all the work.

And in the image on the right you might be able to see some of the Archimedes writing.

And normally in a book, you wouldn't worry about the little bits, but these little bits might contain unique Archimedes text.

Because not many people are really going to read Archimedes in ancient Greek, but they should have the chance to do it.

Everything we know about Archimedes as a mathematician we know about because of just three books, and they're called A, B and C.

They weren't in A and B at all they were completely new texts by Archimedes, and they were called The Method and The Stomachion.

And it was an expensive job, but actually it wouldn't be as much as you think because these people, they didn't come from money, they came from Archimedes.

And this is terribly important, because the diagrams in the manuscript are the unique source for the diagrams that Archimedes drew in the sand in the fourth century B.C.

Medieval Islamic world In the medieval Islamic world (632 1280), the use of water clocks has its roots from Archimedes during the rise of Alexandria in Egypt and continues on through Byzantium.

Acorn BBC Archimedes The Acorn BBC Micro was a very popular British computer in the 1980s with home and educational users, and enjoyed near universal usage in British schools into the mid 1990s.