Archimedes und die Stabilität von Schiffen

Abstract: Archimedes, an outstanding mathematician, natural scientist and engineer of antiquity, is widely known for having established the hydrostatic principle of the balance between the buoyancy and displacement forces of floating bodies. Much less well-known, however, are his equally significant achievements in the development of a criterion for the hydrostatic stability of such bodies and thus of ships, comparable in a sense to the concept of a positive lever arm of the righting aspect of these forces. This lack of fame is surprising, considering that his unusual ideas on stability, demonstrated in the example of the simple form of a rotation paraboloid, appeared in the same extant treatise that contains the basic principle of hydrostatics: On Floating Bodies. Yet Archimedes’ treatises are seldom read carefully. The study at hand therefore takes a closer look at the treatises on which his contributions to the subject are based. An explanation is provided for his ability to calculate lev

Object Details

• Alternative title: Archimedes and the stability of ships
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Deutsch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion ; nicht begutachtet ; In: Deutsches Schiffahrtsarchiv ; 24 (2001) ; 7-37

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Mathematik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Mannheim
• (when): 2001
• Creator: Nowacki, Horst

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-59714-1
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 14.08.2025, 11:00 AM CEST