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    Archimedes, a name commonly associated with the beginning of science, was an engineer and one of the greatest mathematicians in history. His impact on modern science rests on his use of experiment and invention to test ideas and his use mathematics to describe the basic principles of physical phenomena. Knowledge of the lives of ancient philosophers like Archimedes is not prevalent. We know from his writings that he grew up and spent much of his life in Syracuse, a Sicilian port on the Ionian

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    Archimedes Contributions

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    Archimedes was a greek scientist, mathematician and inventor. He was best known for shouting ‘Eureka’ naked across the street when he understood the principal that the volume of water displaced is equal to the water that rose. His inventions spanned across many different industries and has helped sped up the pace of innovation in those following industries. However, one of the most impressive aspect about him was that his inventions completely altered the way warfare was fought. Firstly, to defend

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    Archimedes was a Greek Mathematician from Syracuse, Italy. He was an astronomer, physicist, inventor, and an engineer. Minimal details of his life are yet to be discovered, but his achievement of being the leader of scientists in the classical antiquity. Over the years of his life, Archimedes obtained as much knowledge as he could from his teachers and then decided to travel an extremity to Egypt and there began his study of Alexandria. In a lapse of time Archimedes earned a scholarship and he was

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    Regarding the personal life of Archimedes, not much was saved. However, the famous Greek still made his mark by being a great mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. His greatest accomplishments have been regarding to mathematics, therefore being regarded as one of the greatest mathematicians of all time. Although it’s a title well deserved, Archimedes wasn’t born a fantastic scholar like he was. Born 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, Archimedes lived in Egypt for most

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    engineers in history is born. His name is Archimedes and he will change the world. Archimedes life, achievements, and effect on the modern world of engineering make him one of the most prominent and important figures in the ancient world. Unfortunately little is known about the life of Archimedes. In 287 B.C.E he was born in Syracuse. His father was an astronomer named Pheidias and as a man he traveled to Alexandria to study

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    Archimedes Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 BC. He was the son of the astronomer Phidias and was close to King Hieron and his son, for whom he served for many years. There is not much known about his life, but he has been regarded as one of the three greatest mathematicians along with Isaac Newton and Carl Gauss. in addition to being a great mathematician, he was also considered a leading scientist of ancient times, a physicist, an engineer, an inventor, and an astronomer. He had

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    you ever have exquisite, yet unproven beliefs on how you invented them? Well even if you didn’t a great man named Archimedes did all of those. Some of his greatest and well known discoveries are the law of bouyancy and the law of levers and many others. Archimedes was born in 287 B.C.E. in syracuse later he died in 212 B.C.E. Archimedes lead us through the door of science. Archimedes lived in a greek settlement on the island of Sicily, which is off the toe of Italy. The settlement he lived in was

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    Archimedes was a great mathematician that iInvented many war machines to help defend his hometown, Syracuse . He was a brilliant inventor that made many machines not only to fight, but also some machines to advance the Greek lifestyle. Archimedes was born in 287 BC, just as soon as Syracuse’s king, Agathocles, was dying. Agathocles was a bad tyrant who marched into Syracuse with mercenaries and killed about 10,000 people . Also, the Punic wars were occurring around his lifetime. The Punic

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    Archimedes was born in Syracuse on the Island of Sicily in 287 BC. His father’s name was Phidias and was believed to be somewhat related to the king of Syracuse, Heiro II. Archimedes is famously known as multiple things including a mathematician, inventor, engineer, and astronomer. Moving to Alexandria in his later life, he studied at a school established by Euclid. Afterwards he returned to Syracuse, spending the majority of his life solving mathematical problems and making new inventions for the

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    recorded history. It was not until Archimedes of Syracuse came along, that the theory of flotation and the buoyancy principle were defined. Archimedes was born at Syracuse on the island of Sicily in 287 BC. His father, Phidias, is thought to have been an astronomer who discovered the size and distances of the sun and moon. Archimedes might have been related to King Hieron the second, King Hieron definitely favored Archimedes as his first philosopher. As a young boy, Archimedes developed a life-long interest

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