![]() Vitruvio, De architectura, Einaudi, Torino, 1997Ĭlagett M., La scienza della meccanica nel medioevo, Feltrinelli, Milano, 1972įavaro A. Silver has a density of 10.6 grams/cubic-centimeter and so the gold-silver crown would have a volume of 700/19.3 + 300/10.6 64. Hill D.R., On the construction of water-clocks, Turner & Devereux, London, 1976 In the first century BC the Roman architect Vitruvius related a story of how Archimedes uncovered a fraud in the manufacture of a golden crown commissioned by Hiero II, the king of Syracuse. Russo L., Archimede, Collana “Gli iniziatori”, Canguro, Alessandria, 2009 Eecke), Desclee de Brouwer, Paris, 1933ĭijksterhuis E.J., Archimede, Ponte alle Grazie, Firenze, 1989 Polibio, Storie, BUR Rizzoli, Milano, 1993 e Noel W., Il codice perduto di Archimede, Rizzoli, Milano, 2007 Plutarco, Vite parallele, Le Monnier, Firenze, 1910Īrchimede, Opere (a cura di Attilio Frajese), UTET, Torino, 1974 ![]() Russo L., La rivoluzione dimenticata, Feltrinelli, Milano, 2001 Napolitani P.D., Archimede, collana “I grandi della scienza”, Le Scienze, 2001 Fourth century BC The wreath and the gold The wreath displaces more water than the gold nugget I n the first century BC the Roman architect Vitruvius related a story of how Archimedes uncovered a fraud in the manufacture of a golden crown commissioned by Hiero II, the king of Syracuse. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. In this paper, we compare and discuss the two reconstructions, both of them to be considered plausible. THE GOLDEN CROWN: A DISCUSSION these and further inventions, real or supposed to be, there is the episode of. The episode of the apparent fraud goes generally around in two different versions the first one, which is based on the volumetric comparisons, mentioned by the roman architect Vitruvius, the second one is anonymous, it is related by Priscian and it’s essentially based on the hydrostatic balance. ![]() Among these and further inventions, real or supposed to be, there is the episode of Hiero’s Crown, Fig. ![]() Systems of levers and catapults, cochlea and other mechanical or hydraulic contraptions, water-clock, planetarium, heat rays. Archimedes’s fame is universally more connected to his extra- ordinary inventions and to the legendary events that have been ascribed to him rather than to a deep and real knowledge of the historical personage and of his works. ![]()
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