The Sand-Reckoner

The Sand-ReckonerThe Sand Reckoner from author Gillian Bradshaw is a historical account that reimagines the life of one of ancient Greek's greatest minds. The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to Archimedes. But heaven must be forsaken when he learns that his father is ailing,

The Sand-Reckoner from author Gillian Bradshaw is a historical account that reimagines the life of one of ancient Greek's greatest minds.

The young scholar Archimedes has just had the best three years of his life at Ptolemy's Museum at Alexandria. To be able to talk and think all day, every day, sharing ideas and information with the world's greatest minds, is heaven to Archimedes. But heaven must be forsaken when he learns that his father is ailing, and his home city of Syracuse is at war with the Romans.

Reluctant but resigned, Archimedes takes himself home to find a job building catapults as a royal engineer. Though Syracuse is no Alexandria, Archimedes also finds that life at home isn't as boring or confining as he originally thought. He finds fame and loss, love and war, wealth and betrayal-none of which affects him nearly as much as the divine beauty of mathematics.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 06/02/2001
ISBN: 9780312875817
Pages: 351
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/01/2001 pg. 1460

Accelerated Reader Quiz #/Name: 52023 / Sand-Reckoner
Reading Level: 7 / Interest Level: Upper Grade / Point Value: 20