Archimedes (disambiguation)

Archimedes (disambiguation)

Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece.

Archimedes may also refer to:

* Archimedes (crater), a lunar crater
* Archimedes (CAD), an open-source computer-aided design project
* Acorn Archimedes, a home computer
* Archimedes, Merlin's owl in T. H. White's "The Once and Future King"
* Archimedes Q. Porter the father of Jane Porter in Tarzan.

People with the given name Archimedes

* Archimedes Plutonium, a notable Usenet personality

ee also

* Archimedean property
* Archimedean solid
* Archimedean spiral
* Archimedes Palimpsest
* Archimedes' screw


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