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The Sand-Reckoner

The Sand-Reckoner( )
Author: Bradshaw, Gillian
ISBN:978-0-312-87340-0
Publication Date:Apr 2000
Publisher:Tom Doherty Associates, LLC
Imprint:Forge Books
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $23.95
Book Description:

The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to Archimedes. But heaven must be forsaken when he learns that his father is ailing, and his home city of Syracuse is at war with the Romans.Reluctant but resigned, Archimedes takes himself home to find a job building catapults as a royal engineer. Though...
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Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Historical / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.52 x 8.62 x 1.25 Inches
Book Weight:1.145 Pounds



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