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Definition of Archimedes
Archimedes

An extinct genus of Bryzoa characteristic of the subcarboniferous rocks. Its form is that of a screw.

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Archimedes Quotations

The good opinion of mankind, like the lever of Archimedes, with the given fulcrum, moves the world.
Thomas Jefferson

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.
Ernest Renan

He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
Alexandre Dumas

Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not.
G. H. Hardy

The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
Felix Klein

Archimedes Translations

Archimedes in Dutch is Archimedes

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