Friday, January 23, 2009

Infinite Secrets - The Genius of Archimedes

In 1991, a small Medieval prayer book was sold at auction. Miraculously, some original writings of Archimedes, the brilliant Greek mathematician, were discovered hidden beneath the religious text. Through scholarly detective work with the help of modern technology, this book now reveals Archimedes’ stunningly original concepts, ideas, and theories—revelations that, if known sooner, might have reshaped our world.



Many historic figures have been hailed as ahead of their time. Few—if any—are said to be centuries ahead of their time. The Einstein of his era, Archimedes had a sophisticated understanding of mathematics, and designed marvelous war machines for his native Syracuse to use against the invading Romans. Many of Archimedes’ works disappeared during the Middle Ages, but some survived to help inspire the scientific revolution in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.



One document that seemed irretrievably lost was his final treatise The Method, which reputedly explained how he achieved his brilliant results—secrets he revealed nowhere else. Now, over 2200 years later, the discovery of The Method has experts and scientists dreaming of what might have been if Renaissance thinkers and other great minds had known of his ideas and been able to build on them




This documentary explores Archimedes’ rare writings, as well as the book’s mysterious beginnings, tumultuous history and amazing discovery. As the ancient text comes back from the dead, it unlocks its revolutionary contents—the infinite secrets of one of history’s greatest thinkers.

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2 comments:

Anonymous said...

There is Archimedes, Einstein and Newton ! But the greastest of these is Archimedes ! He was doing 21st century matamatics on INFINITY in 3rd century B.C.E !! WOW !!! This man must have had a IQ of 200 !!!

Anonymous said...

Shame they put people on it who fill in the blanks with what they 'think' they see. This way much of what they find might actually just be modern mathematics projected over Archimedes' real words and diagrams, which just arent there anymore.
On the other hand it is said that there were accounts in the great Alexandrian library of the world being a sphere long before that too, including a pretty exact figure of the circumference of the earth ^^
Wish I knew how serious to take all those claims of ancient wisdom.

Keep sending us these documentaries :) Story or truth, doesnt matter. I like both :D

Did I mention I like infinities? ^^;;