Archimedes (disambiguation)

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Archimedes was a celebrated mathematician and engineer of ancient Greece. Various things have been named after him, both his own inventions and subsequent products named in his honour. They include:

• Archimedean property
• Archimedean solid
• Archimedean spiral
• Archimedes crater on the Moon.
• Archimedes' screw
• The Acorn Archimedes computer
• The Archimedes Project [1] at the University of Hawaii and Stanford University
• The name of three different board games [2].
• Archimedes (CAD) - Opensource Computer Aided Design project aimed at Architects.
• The Archimedes Mars Balloon Probe, a planned payload for the AMSAT P5A spacecraft, set to launch in 2009 [3].

Other people bearing the name Archimedes:

• Merlin's owl in T. H. White's novel, The Once and Future King.
• Archimedes Plutonium, eccentric individual known for his colorful "scientific" contributions to Usenet.