EditorialTypes of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus' or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibius's ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dicti...
EditorialSketchbook Page, Folio 64: Study after Bolognese Architecture and Monuments, Including Arch of San Domenico; Verso: Geometric Studies, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, brush and bistre wash over traces of black chalk on laid paper, R...
EditorialFigulus, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republi...
EditorialNigidius, Print, Even Varro, though schooled in the Stoicism of Aelius Stilo and in skeptical Antiochean Platonism, requested a Pythagorean funeral for himself. The 19th-century historian Theodor Mommsen compared the occult interests of the Late Republ...
EditorialPythagorean theorem. Euclid's geometry expounded. Middle East, 1258. The Pythagorean theorem in a work by al-Tusi. Image taken from Euclid's geometry expounded. Originally published/produced in Middle East, 1258. . Source: Add. 23387, f.28. Language:...
EditorialTypes of hydraulics systems and pumps: Persian wheel or sakia, Tantalus' or Pythagorean cup, Ctesibius's ancient pump, and sucking, forcing, lifting and chain pumps. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dicti...