Archimedes and the Door of Science (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Jeanne Bendick
- First Published: 1962
- Time of Work: The third century
- Setting: Syracuse, Sicily, and Alexandria, Egypt
- Principal Characters: Archimedes, Conon of Samos, Eratosthenes, Hiero II, Hippocrates, Marcellus, Phidias
- Genres: Nonfiction, Children’s literature, Biography
- Subjects: Science or scientists, Egypt or Egyptians, Greek or Roman times, Biography, Learning or scholarship, Mathematics or mathematicians, Greece or Greek people, Astronomy or astronomers, Physics or physicists
- Locales: Egypt, ancient, Alexandria, Egypt, Sicily, ancient, Syracuse, ancient
Form and Content
Jeanne Bendick has organized Archimedes and the Door of Science into a series of fourteen chapters whose lengths vary from two to fifteen pages, each focused on a particular period in Archimedes’ life or on a particular scientific topic that he investigated. At the end of the text, she has provided an appendix listing the writings of Archimedes that are known to have existed, as well as an index to the book.
Bendick, an illustrator as well as an author, has incorporated into her text some simple, rather charming sketches to bring characters and...
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