Media Contributed by Rick
The School of Athens One of the Four Rooms painted by Raphael at the Vatican
The Fields Medal Carrying an inscription of Archimedes, the medal is awarded every four years to 2-4 outstanding mathematicians under the age of 40 years old.
Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes by Benjamin West (1805). In 75BC Circero discovered and refurbished Archimedes' Tomb with its sculpture depicting the ratio of a sphere to a cylinder with same diameter and height - Archimedes' favorite proof
Archimedes, "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth." Plutarch represented Archimedes as declaring that Any given weight can be moved by a given force.
Parabolic Mirror Parallel rays coming into a parabolic mirror are focused at a point F. The vertex is V, and the axis of symmetry passes through V and F. For off-axis reflectors (with just the part of the paraboloid between the points P1 and P3), the receiver is still placed at the focus of the paraboloid, but it does not cast a shadow onto the reflector.
Parabolic Reflector Archimedes may have used mirrors acting collectively as a parabolic reflector to burn ships attacking Syracuse.
Archimedes' mirror Artist Giulio Parigi's interpretation of Archimedes' mirror used to burn Roman ships. c. 1599
A page from On Floating Bodies In the Archimedes Palimpsest
Archimedes in his bath 16th-century carving of Archimedes in the bath, with Hiero's crown at bottom right
