Archimedes

three points of aesthetics that are very striking are: how some characters are more stylised than others; how colours play a big role; and how evil characters are drawn. Firstly, one of the main things is how certain characters are drawn such as Archimedes Q. Porter and Tantor the Elephant. They are both stylised further than…

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as incontrovertible truth. The research that I’ve done on this is quite interesting. Amazing philosophers such as Pythagoras, Plato, Euclid, Archimedes, and Galileo have given these to us with plausible explanations. Pythagoras who is lived in five-hundred B.C. Plato founder of the Academy of Athens. Euclid also known as “the father of geometry”. Archimedes whose life details are very unknown but is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Galileo who played a major role…

Archimedes’ screw was like a elevator, effectively lifting water up a slope, so what happens is that the water is going up the screw diagonally, the water is lifted up by the giant screw and tries to go down but because it is diagonal it gets pushed against the side so it can’t go down, you would need to understand gravity to understand Archimedes’ screw. Roads needs to be planned on paper, but first the terrain needs to be…

Christiaan Huygens was a Dutch Mathematician and Scientist in the late 17th century. It becomes difficult at this stage to be any more specific than that, as his achievements are in fields so varied and so far-reaching that the only description of him that fits is ‘polymath’. Indeed, we are only learning of some achievements today, as his reticence to publish many of his works kept many of them from seeing the light of day for quite some time (Igorevich). He was born in the cold April of 1626 in…

Aristotle’s Four Causes in Science Explanation is basic human nature. It began as a way to pass blame onto another person, then onto God or gods. This changed with the ideas of Archimedes of Syracuse. Archimedes was a mathematician, physicist, and inventor who was responsible for the discovery of buoyancy and the invention of both the siege engine and screw pump. After his discoveries, the popular view on explanation was modified. Instead of divine powers intervening in the world, people…

Candy’s character since he has such a close bond with Archimedes his dog. I really felt his pain and felt his sadness when they took his dog away from him. He had that dog since he was a puppy, that dog was like his baby, his best friend, his loyal companion and it was snatched away and killed against his will. I would really be able to get in this characters shoes and play it well since I honestly did feel heart broken when they took Archimedes away from him. 6. Who was your favorite…

capital with its many national museums and monuments. To accomplish these architectural advances, the Classical Greeks came up with geometrical and mathematical terms that have survived to this day. Some examples are the foundations of calculus by Archimedes and Euclid’s compilation of mathematics works that includes geometry and number…

necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." Descartes reaches this conclusion by first asserting that his method of doubt so far has left him doubting his senses. He intends on further using his method of doubt to, like Archimedes, discover at least one thing that is certain, even if this one thing is that nothing is certain. Descartes reasons that his sensory concept of an object cannot be trusted, so there must be another source ­­ God, malignant demon, or…

Math is about numbers; these numbers span from positive to negative, rational to irrational and complex to imaginary. The main number that this essay will be looking at is the irrational number known as pi. Many different civilizations throughout history have had their own approximations for pi. In fact one of the first aspects in defining the number known as pi was coming up with a variable that could represent this number. Π was decided to be the variable that stuck and its origins can be…