![]() McGee develops the Rules of Time Travel and provides solutions in his travels through time, with one of his biggest rules-have a backup plan.Īlthough the plot, characters and suspense is quite entertaining, the author makes a few novice mistakes in the telling of the story. McGee tries to protect this secret from the CIA as he travels back in time to verify what Archimedes knew and how to use this exciting, but dangerous new discovery and it’s possible impact on people and past events. Fin McGee, a noted academic physicist, physician who discovers Archimedes secret that he also invented a means to time travel. Homa’s plot, he created a story about a quirky scientist named Dr. Using this scientist’s achievements as a major part of Dr. The claw was a crane-like arm with a large metal grappling hook that could lift a ship out of the water and sink it. Archimedes discovered and invented many things and one of them was the Claw of Archimedes, which was used to defend the city against Roman ships. I decided to purchase the ebook on my new Kindle Fire and give it a good read.Īrchimedes Claw is based on the real Greek mathematician, Archimedes, who lived in Syracuse, Sicily and died in 212 BC, killed by a Roman soldier during the siege of Syracuse. He wanted to combine history with good science and write a book, which was published as an ebook. Homa says he has always had a goal to write a novel, but has been too busy with his practice to do so. Doctor Homa’s first book is called Archimedes Claw. ![]() The writer’s name is Theodore Morrison Homa, MD, who happens to live in the same town as I. While this does not prove the existence of the Claw, it suggests that it would have been possible.In this Newsletter, I’ve decided to do a book review on a new science fiction writer who is experiencing, I am sure, the same frustrations as many new writers who publish ebooks for the first time- how to generate enough publicity to sell his book. Within seven days they were able to test their creation, and they did succeed in tipping over a model of a Roman ship so that it would sink. ![]() The producers of Superweapons brought together a group of engineers tasked with conceiving and implementing a design that was realistic, given what is known about Archimedes. The plausibility of this invention was tested in 1999 in the BBC series Secrets of the Ancients and again in early 2005 in the Discovery Channel series Superweapons of the Ancient World. Historians such as Livy attributed heavy Roman losses to these machines, together with catapults also devised by Archimedes. When the Roman fleet approached the city walls under cover of darkness, the machines were deployed, sinking many ships and throwing the attack into confusion. These machines featured prominently during the Second Punic War in 214 BC, when the Roman Republic attacked Syracuse with a fleet of 60 quinqueremes under Marcus Claudius Marcellus. It was dropped onto enemy ships, which would then swing on to defensive forces and destroy them. Although its exact nature is unclear, the accounts of ancient historians seem to describe it as a sort of crane equipped with a grappling hook that was able to drop an attacking ship partly down in to the water, then either cause the ship to capsize or suddenly drop it. The Claw of Archimedes ( Ancient Greek: Ἁρπάγη, romanized: harpágē, lit.'snatcher' also known as the iron hand) was an ancient weapon devised by Archimedes to defend the seaward portion of Syracuse's city wall against amphibious assault.
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