archimedean

Adjective

Meaning

Of or pertaining to Archimedes, a celebrated Greek philosopher; constructed on the principle of Archimedes' screw; as, Archimedean drill, propeller, etc.

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Peter the Hermit, Calvin, and Robespierre, each at an interval of three hundred years and all three from the same region, were, politically speaking, the Archimedean screws of their age, - at each epoch a Thought which found its fulcrum in the self-interest of mankind. Honoré de Balzac

Also, in part due to self-duality of the tetrahedron, only one Archimedean solid has only tetrahedral symmetry. Source: Internet

Construction of Archimedean solids further The Archimedean solids can be constructed as generator positions in a kaleidoscope The different Archimedean and Platonic solids can be related to each other using a handful of general constructions. Source: Internet

Depending on how much is truncated (see table below), different Platonic and Archimedean (and other) solids can be created. Source: Internet

"Archimedean statics formed the basis for creating the fundamentals of the science on specific weight. Source: Internet

It is so convinced of its own rightness, of its Archimedean position, that it remained aloof and invariant, rather than being sensitive to its changing local context." Source: Internet

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