De Kievit, Menaldum of the "upright shaft" there are two "crown wheels" The upper "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs drives an Archimedes' screw via a "crown wheel". This screw was used to pump water into the polder. The lower "crown wheel", which has 35 cogs, drives a gearwheel with 32 cogs on the axle of an Archimedes' screw, which was used to drain the polder. The axle of the screw is diameter and long. The screw is diameter. It is inclined at 10°. Each revolution of the screw lifts of water. "De Kievit" is open to the public at any time it
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