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title: ARCHIMEDES DEATH

subject date: 2017-04-01

caption: ANCIENT ROME "Archimedes was killed by a soldier of Marcellus". The end of Archimedes of Syracuse (287 BC - 212 BC), mathematician, physicist and Syracusan inventor, is told in different versions according to the most popular, a soldier sent by Marcello would be introduced in his office, ordered him to follow the conqueror of Syracuse; the genius, who was at work, would agree, however, begging the army to let him finish the first demonstration which was intent. The soldier, angered by the rejection, he unsheathed his sword and killed him, leaving only time to utter the last words "do not spoil, please, this design." Table illustrated n. 15 from the "Roman History" by Charles Rollin (January 30, 1661 - September 14 1741), "engraved in branches of invention from light Sig. Bartolomeo Pinelli Romano and etched by Mr Raffaele Persichini". Rome, 1833

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continent: Europa

image century : XIX

image epoch: Ottocento

subject century: III a.C.

subject epoch: Antica Roma

technique: Incisione

id: 39968

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