Reflection of archimedes' law in art

✍ Scribed by Abraham Tamir

• Book ID: 102095485
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 150 KB
• Volume: 80
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0008-4034
• DOI: 10.1002/cjce.5450800223

✦ Synopsis

hen 40 people were shown the pictures that appear on the back cover of this issue, only one indicated that the artwork demonstrates Archimedes' Law, and only four emphasized the buoyancy effect. It is the aim of this Art & Science page to accustom people to 'see' science in works of art along with aesthetics, usually observed.

Archimedes, one of the greatest mathematicians of all times, was bom in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 BC. Unfortunately, he was killed in 21 2 BC by a Roman soldier when the Romans invaded Sicily during the Second Punic War. He was solving a mathematical problem when a Roman soldier confronted him. He refused to move until his problem was finished so the soldier ran a sword through him. Among Archimedes' achievements we can mention the following: he anticipated many discoveries of modem science, such as integral calculus;