And there is the Archimedes sphere, a forerunner of the planetarium — a hand-held globe that showed the constellations as well as the locations of the sun and the planets in the sky.

Sphere Archimedes studied spheres. He showed that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds that of a cylinder that encloses it. Spheres can be found on a grand scale in the shape of planets.

Archimedes wrote about harnessing the Sun’s energy to create a death ray. And Sener wanted in. Sener has since earned multiple medals for his attempt to bring the ancient device to life.

ARCHIMEDES was at the cutting-edge of Ancient Greek technology but he might have increased his ability to engage with ordinary folk had he access to a 3D printer. One of the polymath’s favourite ...

In his West London workshop, Michael Wright builds ancient mechanisms. In this Nature Video, we see his latest contraption, the sphere of Archimedes. Based on little more than ancient Greek texts ...

In his West London workshop, Michael Wright builds ancient mechanisms. In this Nature Video, we see his latest contraption, the Sphere of Archimedes. Based on little more than ancient Greek texts ...

Although Archimedes was on the verge of inventing calculus around 250 B.C., it wasn't until nearly 2,000 years later that Sir Isaac Newton published The Principia, a work in which Newton developed ...