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Archimedes of Syracuse (/kmidiz/;[2] Greek: Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of
; c. 287 c. 212 BC) was a Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in
Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and Magna Graecia, located along the coast of Southern Italy.
astronomer.[3] Although few details of his life are known, The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine
he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for
antiquity. Generally considered the greatest mathemati- 75 years.[9] In The Sand Reckoner, Archimedes gives
cian of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time,[4][5] his fathers name as Phidias, an astronomer about whom
Archimedes anticipated modern calculus and analysis by nothing is known. Plutarch wrote in his Parallel Lives
applying concepts of innitesimals and the method of that Archimedes was related to King Hiero II, the ruler
exhaustion to derive and rigorously prove a range of of Syracuse.[10] A biography of Archimedes was written
geometrical theorems, including the area of a circle, the by his friend Heracleides but this work has been lost, leav-
surface area and volume of a sphere, and the area under ing the details of his life obscure.[11] It is unknown, for in-
a parabola.[6] stance, whether he ever married or had children. During
Other mathematical achievements include deriving an ac- his youth, Archimedes may have studied in Alexandria,
curate approximation of pi, dening and investigating Egypt, where Conon of Samos and Eratosthenes of
the spiral bearing his name, and creating a system us- Cyrene were contemporaries. He referred to Conon of
ing exponentiation for expressing very large numbers. He Samos as his friend, while two of his works (The Method
was also one of the rst to apply mathematics to physi- of Mechanical Theorems and the Cattle Problem) have in-
cal phenomena, founding hydrostatics and statics, includ- troductions addressed to Eratosthenes.[a]
ing an explanation of the principle of the lever. He is Archimedes died c. 212 BC during the Second
credited with designing innovative machines, such as his Punic War, when Roman forces under General Marcus
screw pump, compound pulleys, and defensive war ma- Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after
chines to protect his native Syracuse from invasion. a two-year-long siege. According to the popular ac-
Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he count given by Plutarch, Archimedes was contemplating
was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he a mathematical diagram when the city was captured. A
should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting the tomb Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet Gen-
of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere and a eral Marcellus but he declined, saying that he had to n-
cylinder, which Archimedes had requested to be placed ish working on the problem. The soldier was enraged by
on his tomb, representing his mathematical discoveries. this, and killed Archimedes with his sword. Plutarch also
gives a lesser-known account of the death of Archimedes
Unlike his inventions, the mathematical writings of
which suggests that he may have been killed while at-
Archimedes were little known in antiquity. Mathemati-
tempting to surrender to a Roman soldier. According
cians from Alexandria read and quoted him, but the rst
to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical in-
comprehensive compilation was not made until c. 530
struments, and was killed because the soldier thought that
AD by Isidore of Miletus in Byzantine Constantinople,
they were valuable items. General Marcellus was report-
while commentaries on the works of Archimedes written
edly angered by the death of Archimedes, as he consid-
by Eutocius in the sixth century AD opened them to wider
ered him a valuable scientic asset and had ordered that
readership for the rst time. The relatively few copies
he not be harmed.[12] Marcellus called Archimedes a ge-
of Archimedes written work that survived through the
ometrical Briareus".[13]
Middle Ages were an inuential source of ideas for sci-
entists during the Renaissance,[7] while the discovery in The last words attributed to Archimedes are Do not dis-
1906 of previously unknown works by Archimedes in the turb my circles, a reference to the circles in the math-
Archimedes Palimpsest has provided new insights into ematical drawing that he was supposedly studying when
how he obtained mathematical results.[8] disturbed by the Roman soldier. This quote is often given
in Latin as "Noli turbare circulos meos, but there is no
reliable evidence that Archimedes uttered these words
and they do not appear in the account given by Plutarch.
Valerius Maximus, writing in Memorable Doings and
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2 2 DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS
cause the scale to tip accordingly. Galileo considered it 2.3 Claw of Archimedes
probable that this method is the same that Archimedes
followed, since, besides being very accurate, it is based The Claw of Archimedes is a weapon that he is said to
on demonstrations found by Archimedes himself.[22] In have designed in order to defend the city of Syracuse.
a 12th-century text titled Mappae clavicula there are in- Also known as the ship shaker, the claw consisted of a
structions on how to perform the weighings in the water in crane-like arm from which a large metal grappling hook
order to calculate the percentage of silver used, and thus was suspended. When the claw was dropped onto an at-
solve the problem.[23][24] The Latin poem Carmen de pon- tacking ship the arm would swing upwards, lifting the ship
deribus et mensuris of the 4th or 5th century describes the out of the water and possibly sinking it. There have been
use of a hydrostatic balance to solve the problem of the modern experiments to test the feasibility of the claw, and
crown, and attributes the method to Archimedes.[23] in 2005 a television documentary entitled Superweapons
of the Ancient World built a version of the claw and con-
cluded that it was a workable device.[30][31]
2.2 Archimedes screw
Main article: Archimedes screw 2.4 Heat ray
A large part of Archimedes work in engineering arose
Shore
Sun
Mirror
Archimedes
Heat Mirror
Ray
Syracuse. The 2nd century AD author Lucian wrote lenge. Several experiments were carried out, including
that during the Siege of Syracuse (c. 214212 BC), a large scale test with 500 schoolchildren aiming mirrors
Archimedes destroyed enemy ships with re. Centuries at a mock-up of a Roman sailing ship 400 feet (120 m)
later, Anthemius of Tralles mentions burning-glasses as away. In all of the experiments, the sail failed to reach the
Archimedes weapon.[32] The device, sometimes called 210 C (410 F) required to catch re, and the verdict was
the Archimedes heat ray, was used to focus sunlight again busted. The show concluded that a more likely ef-
onto approaching ships, causing them to catch re. In the fect of the mirrors would have been blinding, dazzling, or
modern era, similar devices have been constructed and distracting the crew of the ship.[39]
may be referred to as a heliostat or solar furnace.[33]
This purported weapon has been the subject of ongoing
2.5 Other discoveries and inventions
debate about its credibility since the Renaissance. Ren
Descartes rejected it as false, while modern researchers
While Archimedes did not invent the lever, he gave
have attempted to recreate the eect using only the
an explanation of the principle involved in his work
means that would have been available to Archimedes.[34]
On the Equilibrium of Planes. Earlier descriptions of
It has been suggested that a large array of highly pol-
the lever are found in the Peripatetic school of the
ished bronze or copper shields acting as mirrors could
followers of Aristotle, and are sometimes attributed
have been employed to focus sunlight onto a ship.
to Archytas.[40][41] According to Pappus of Alexandria,
A test of the Archimedes heat ray was carried out in 1973 Archimedes work on levers caused him to remark: Give
by the Greek scientist Ioannis Sakkas. The experiment me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.
took place at the Skaramagas naval base outside Athens. (Greek: )[42]
On this occasion 70 mirrors were used, each with a cop- Plutarch describes how Archimedes designed block-and-
per coating and a size of around ve by three feet (1.5 tackle pulley systems, allowing sailors to use the principle
by 1 m). The mirrors were pointed at a plywood mock- of leverage to lift objects that would otherwise have been
up of a Roman warship at a distance of around 160 feet too heavy to move.[43] Archimedes has also been credited
(50 m). When the mirrors were focused accurately, the with improving the power and accuracy of the catapult,
ship burst into ames within a few seconds. The plywood and with inventing the odometer during the First Punic
ship had a coating of tar paint, which may have aided War. The odometer was described as a cart with a gear
combustion.[35] A coating of tar would have been com- mechanism that dropped a ball into a container after each
monplace on ships in the classical era.[d] mile traveled.[44]
In October 2005 a group of students from the Cicero (10643 BC) mentions Archimedes briey in his
Massachusetts Institute of Technology carried out an ex- dialogue De re publica, which portrays a ctional con-
periment with 127 one-foot (30 cm) square mirror tiles, versation taking place in 129 BC. After the capture of
focused on a mock-up wooden ship at a range of around Syracuse c. 212 BC, General Marcus Claudius Marcel-
100 feet (30 m). Flames broke out on a patch of the ship, lus is said to have taken back to Rome two mechanisms,
but only after the sky had been cloudless and the ship had constructed by Archimedes and used as aids in astron-
remained stationary for around ten minutes. It was con- omy, which showed the motion of the Sun, Moon and ve
cluded that the device was a feasible weapon under these planets. Cicero mentions similar mechanisms designed
conditions. The MIT group repeated the experiment for by Thales of Miletus and Eudoxus of Cnidus. The dia-
the television show MythBusters, using a wooden shing logue says that Marcellus kept one of the devices as his
boat in San Francisco as the target. Again some charring only personal loot from Syracuse, and donated the other
occurred, along with a small amount of ame. In order to to the Temple of Virtue in Rome. Marcellus mechanism
catch re, wood needs to reach its autoignition tempera- was demonstrated, according to Cicero, by Gaius Sulpi-
ture, which is around 300 C (570 F).[36][37] cius Gallus to Lucius Furius Philus, who described it thus:
When MythBusters broadcast the result of the San Fran-
cisco experiment in January 2006, the claim was placed Hanc sphaeram Gallus cum moveret, ebat
in the category of busted (or failed) because of the ut soli luna totidem conversionibus in aere illo
length of time and the ideal weather conditions required quot diebus in ipso caelo succederet, ex quo et
for combustion to occur. It was also pointed out that since in caelo sphaera solis eret eadem illa defectio,
Syracuse faces the sea towards the east, the Roman eet et incideret luna tum in eam metam quae es-
would have had to attack during the morning for opti- set umbra terrae, cum sol e regione. When
mal gathering of light by the mirrors. MythBusters also Gallus moved the globe, it happened that the
pointed out that conventional weaponry, such as aming Moon followed the Sun by as many turns on
arrows or bolts from a catapult, would have been a far that bronze contrivance as in the sky itself,
easier way of setting a ship on re at short distances.[38] from which also in the sky the Suns globe be-
came to have that same eclipse, and the Moon
In December 2010, MythBusters again looked at the heat
came then to that position which was its shadow
ray story in a special edition entitled Presidents Chal-
on the Earth, when the Sun was in line.[45][46]
5
This is a description of a planetarium or orrery. Pappus and Cylinder, Archimedes postulates that any magnitude
of Alexandria stated that Archimedes had written a when added to itself enough times will exceed any given
manuscript (now lost) on the construction of these mech- magnitude. This is the Archimedean property of real
anisms entitled On Sphere-Making. Modern research in numbers.[53]
this area has been focused on the Antikythera mecha-
nism, another device built c. 100 BC that was prob-
ably designed for the same purpose.[47] Constructing
mechanisms of this kind would have required a sophisti-
cated knowledge of dierential gearing.[48] This was once
thought to have been beyond the range of the technology
available in ancient times, but the discovery of the An-
tikythera mechanism in 1902 has conrmed that devices
of this kind were known to the ancient Greeks.[49][50]
3 Mathematics
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sense to, the weight of the uid dis-
r placed.
A sphere has 2/3 the volume and surface area of its circum-
scribing cylinder including its bases. A sphere and cylinder were
placed on the tomb of Archimedes at his request. (see also:
Equiareal map)
were created by scraping the ink from existing works mountain range, the Montes Archimedes (25.3 N,
and reusing them, which was a common practice in the 4.6 W).[75]
Middle Ages as vellum was expensive. The older works
in the palimpsest were identied by scholars as 10th The Fields Medal for outstanding achievement in
century AD copies of previously unknown treatises by mathematics carries a portrait of Archimedes, along
Archimedes.[70] The parchment spent hundreds of years with a carving illustrating his proof on the sphere
in a monastery library in Constantinople before being sold and the cylinder. The inscription around the head of
to a private collector in the 1920s. On October 29, 1998 it Archimedes is a quote attributed to him which reads
was sold at auction to an anonymous buyer for $2 million in Latin: Transire suum pectus mundoque potiri
at Christies in New York.[71] The palimpsest holds seven (Rise above oneself and grasp the world).[76]
treatises, including the only surviving copy of On Floating Archimedes has appeared on postage stamps is-
Bodies in the original Greek. It is the only known source sued by East Germany (1973), Greece (1983), Italy
of The Method of Mechanical Theorems, referred to by (1983), Nicaragua (1971), San Marino (1982), and
Suidas and thought to have been lost forever. Stomachion Spain (1963).[77]
was also discovered in the palimpsest, with a more com-
plete analysis of the puzzle than had been found in pre- The exclamation of Eureka! attributed to
vious texts. The palimpsest is now stored at the Walters Archimedes is the state motto of California.
Art Museum in Baltimore, Maryland, where it has been In this instance the word refers to the discovery of
subjected to a range of modern tests including the use of gold near Sutters Mill in 1848 which sparked the
ultraviolet and x-ray light to read the overwritten text.[72] California Gold Rush.[78]
The treatises in the Archimedes Palimpsest are: On the
Equilibrium of Planes, On Spirals, Measurement of a Cir-
cle, On the Sphere and the Cylinder, On Floating Bodies, 7 See also
The Method of Mechanical Theorems and Stomachion.
Arbelos
Archimedes axiom
6 Legacy
Archimedes number
Archimedes paradox
Archimedean solid
Diocles
Pseudo-Archimedes
Salinon
Steam cannon
Zhang Heng
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Zeuxippus and explaining the number system used in The bridge. Archived from the original on 2007-09-29. Re-
Sand Reckoner; On Balances and Levers; On Centers of trieved 2007-08-07.
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