De Olifant, Burdaard Archimedes' screw. This Archimedes' screw has an axle diameter of and is diameter overall. It is inclined at an angle of 17½°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water. The drive to the smaller of the two Archimedes' screws that drain the polder is from a 36 cog gear wheel meshing with the "great spur wheel". This drives a 33-cog gear wheel which drives the Archimedes' screw via a 41-cog gear wheel on the axle of the Archimedes' screw. This Archimedes' screw has an axle diameter of and is diameter overall. It is inclined at an angle of 121°.
Archimedes Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere and a cylinder, which Archimedes had requested be placed on his tomb to represent his mathematical discoveries. Unlike his inventions, the mathematical writings of Archimedes were little known in antiquity. Mathematicians from Alexandria read and quoted him, but the first comprehensive compilation was not made until by Isidore of Miletus in Byzantine Constantinople, while commentaries on the works of Archimedes written by Eutocius in the sixth century AD opened them to wider readership for the first time. The relatively few copies of Archimedes' written work that survived