LONDON STATUES - SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING
LONDON STATUES - SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING Who has appeared in The Simpsons, Futurama, The Big Bang Theory, Star Trek and even on a Pink Floyd album? It's just one of many interesting things you'll discover below! As usual, click on the names for Wikipedia entries. ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE (c.287-212 BC) Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, and engineer who's widely considered one of the greatest minds of ancient history. He made major contributions to geometry and engineering, including the principle of buoyancy (his " Eureka!" moment) and the design of innovative machines like the Archimedes' Screw. Burlington House, Burlington Gardens This is one of a series of learned figures on the façade at the rear of the Royal Academy of Arts on Piccadilly - rich pickings for this blogger with his telephoto lens. And I would recommend the c afé - especially if there's the queue ...