The book was fine, but perhaps it's misleading to even write a full-length book about a figure for whom so little is known. With the dearth of sources, Nicastro was forced to write at length about the time in which Archimedes lived, the people who he associated with, and events from his age, without much evidence of his actual life.
And unfortunately this resulted in a larger dose of speculation than I would normally expect in a biography.
Anyhow, Archimedes was a great man whose modern reputation is muted as compared to his actual influence on science and the progress of civilization.
Onward.
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