Archimedes (ship)
Several ships have been named ''Archimedes'' for Archimedes Archimedes of Syracuse (;; ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists ...: * was a sailing ship launched at Sunderland. She traded between England and the Baltic until the British government chartered her as a transport . She was lost in December 1811 while coming back from the Baltic. * was a steamship built in Britain in 1839, and the world's first steamship to be driven by a screw propeller. *, of , was built by Palmer Bros.& Co., Newcastle upon Tyne. In 1867 and 1868 she laid telegraph cables between Denmark and Norway and Denmark and England. *, of was built for the Den Line, who gave her the name ''Den of Airlie''. The next year the Liverpool, Brazil & River Plate Steam Navigation purchased her and named her ''Archimedes''. The Admiralty req ...
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Archimedes
Archimedes of Syracuse (;; ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the ancient city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Considered the greatest mathematician of ancient history, and one of the greatest of all time,* * * * * * * * * * Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by applying the concept of the infinitely small and the method of exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of geometrical theorems. These include the area of a circle, the surface area and volume of a sphere, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola, the volume of a segment of a paraboloid of revolution, the volume of a segment of a hyperboloid of revolution, and the area of a spiral. Heath, Thomas L. 1897. ''Works of Archimedes''. Archimedes' other mathematical achievements include deriving an approximation of pi, de ...
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