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Lawrence Taylor Shaw (November 9, 1924 – April 1, 1985) was an American Hugo Award -winning science fiction fan, author, editor and literary agent who usually published as Larry T. Shaw . Shaw joined a group of science fiction writers known as the Futurians during the early 1940s.
Larry Shaw. (November 9, 1924 – April 1, 1985) Lawrence T. Shaw was an American fan and a pro editor. Curfew Publications was his publishing house. He joined the Futurians in the early ’40s and lived in Little Jarnevon. In 1945, he was one of the leaders of the major Futurians feud around the X Document and was one of its editors .
- Who Was Archimedes?
- What Else Did Archimedes do?
- Tracing Archimedes’ Legacy
According to NOVA, Archimedes was born in Syracuse—on the Mediterranean island of Sicily, not upstate New York—around 287 BCE. He wasthe son of astronomer Phidias and a close ally of Syracuse’s King Hieron and his son, whom he served many years. Archimedes traveled to Egyptto study at the Library of Alexandria at age 18 and, upon completing his wor...
Archimedes is often credited with inventingthe Archimedes’ screw, a device for raising water, while in Egypt. The large helix is encased lengthwise in a watertight covering with openings at both ends. When one end is placed in water and the device is elevated at an angle and turned, water trapped in air pockets rises from the lower end through the ...
According to NOVA, scribes copied Archimedes’ writings onto parchment in 300 AD. His manuscript explaining how he developed his mathematical theorems was copied and bound onto vellum sheets around 1000. Archimedes’ treatise Measurement of a Circle—which helped spread his process for calculating pi around the world, according to the American Mathema...
Science Fiction Adventures was an American digest-size science fiction magazine, published from 1956 to 1958 by Irwin Stein's Royal Publications as a companion to Infinity Science Fiction, which had been launched in 1955. Larry Shaw was the editor for all 12 issues.
Larry or Lawrence Shaw may refer to: Larry Shaw (politician), American politician. Larry Shaw (director), American film and television director. Larry Shaw (editor) (1924–1985), American writer. Larry Shaw (physicist) (1939–2017), American physicist and founder of Pi Day.
Physicist, Educator, Founder of Pi Day. Larry Shaw ’61. The sympol π, as every Reedie knows, represents a fundamental geometrical constant—the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter—whose precise value is elusive, but which famously begins 3.14159 . . .
It all started at the Exploratorium with former staff physicist, tinkerer, and media specialist Larry Shaw. In 1988, three years after the death of Exploratorium Founder Frank Oppenheimer, staff gathered at a retreat in Monterey, California, to soul search and brainstorm.
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