by Gilliam Bradshaw · Planeta DeAgostini · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467453331
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«El contador de arena» is the historical novel by Gillian Bradshaw, published by Planeta DeAgostini in hardback (384 pages, in Spanish).
Archimedes, a young mathematician trained at the Museum of Alexandria, returns to Syracuse when his father falls ill and his city goes to war against Rome. As royal engineer, he puts his ingenuity at the service of the catapults, while the plot alternates court life, battles and personal ties with the protagonist's constant fascination with mathematics.
The English original is titled «The Sand-Reckoner». This edition belongs to the collection «Lo mejor de la nueva novela histórica».
For readers of historical fiction set in the Greco-Roman world and of stories about mathematicians and engineers of Antiquity.
Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who lives in Britain. Her serious historical novels are often set in classical antiquity — Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, the Byzantine Empire, Saka and the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom, Imperial Rome, Sub-Roman Britain and Roman Britain. She has also written two novels set in the English Civil War.
