Archimedes
At a glance:
- Series: Great Lives from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Categories: Science, Technology, Inventions
- Subcategories: Mathematics, Mathematicians, Scientists, Inventors, Physics, Physicists, Hellenistic Age, Ancient Greece
- Curriculum: Western Civilization/European History, Ancient History
Article abstract: Greek mathematician and engineer{$I[g]Greece;Archimedes} The greatest mathematician of antiquity, Archimedes did his best work in geometry and also founded the disciplines of statics and hydrostatics.
Early Life
Few details are certain about the life of Archimedes (ar-kuh-MEED-eez). The birth date of 287 b.c.e. was established from a report, about fourteen hundred years after the fact, that he was seventy-five years old at his death in 212 b.c.e. Ancient writers agree in calling him a Syracusan by birth, and he himself provides the...
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