Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

Invents the Archimedes' Screw, a device used to pump water out ... A.D. 1200 A monk reuses Archimedes' manuscript for a prayer book, creating the Palimpsest. This becomes the only copy of ...

Consider, for example, the Archimedes screw: a simple contraption ... with a finite limit,” noted Alex Bellos in his 2014 book The Grapes of Math, thus “starting on the conceptual path ...