Definition of "Archimedean"

Thy Archimedean hand hath learnt to frame / Celestiall Meteors out of Nitrous flame:

1629, William Bastian, “To the Authour” in Francis Malthus (translator), A Treatise of Artificial Fire-Works, London: Richard Hawkins

[…] sporting Nature, to amuse us,Did startling Novelties produce us;Mocking our Archimedean SonsOf Art with strange Phænomenons,

1717, anonymous author, British Wonders‎, London: John Morphew, page 2

Whoever should behold me now, I wistWould think I were a mighty mechanistBent with sublime Archimedean artTo breathe a soul into the iron heartOf some machine portentous,

1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, “Letter to ――”, in Posthumous Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley‎, London: John and Henry L. Hunt, published 1825, page 59

[…] we are leaving the Campbell house for the train station, and I have my Archimedean experience: Elm Street . . . then . . . elm trees!

1969, Philip Roth, Portnoy’s Complaint‎, New York: Random House, page 223