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Three Scientists of the Ancient World - Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia (Paperback)
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Three Scientists of the Ancient World - Anaxagoras, Archimedes, Hypatia (Paperback)
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These plays cover one thousand years of the ancient world from the
golden age of Athens to 5th century Alexandria. The protagonists
are Anaxagoras, Archimedes and Hypatia, scientists, mathematicians,
philosophers. All three of them came into conflict with the
prevalent views of the time. Anaxagoras maintained that the sun was
a big burning rock of the size of the Peleponnesus. He was
condemned to death on the charge of impiety. Archimedes, the first
example of the efficacy of technology combined with science, built
fortifications that could withstand the might of the Roman Army.
His popular fame rests on him shouting Eureka and jumping naked out
of his bath when he discovered the laws of Hydrostatics. He is also
known by his statement: 'give me a fixed point and I shall move the
Earth.' Hypatia was a philosopher and mathematician, a believer in
the old faith. She was hacked to death by a bunch of monks at the
instigation of Cyril, a Saint of the Christian Church.
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