The mirror weapon in Archimedes era

DOI10.1007/978-1-4020-8915-2_4MaRDI QIDQ3564387zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors A. Papadogiannis, N. S. Papadogianni, A. Carabelas, S. Tsitomeneas, P. Kyraggelos, T. G. Chondros

Publication date 2 June 2010

Published in Proceedings of EUCOMES 08 (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8915-2_4

zbMATH Keywords

burning glassexperimentsmirrors weaponssolar irradiationwar machines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

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