So What He Ran Naked? Archimedes’ Versatility Can Make You Doob With Sharam!
Archimedes is a well-known legendary name. He was a great scientist, weapons designer, engineer, inventor, astronomer–TIME PLEASE!–*phew*–perhaps best known for being an excellent mathematician and well, what not! This guy gave us the Pi, Archimedes Principle, and the Archimedes Screw etc., etc., etc.
Know about this versatile man of BC eras and his inventions within minutes below:
1. In 287 BC Archimedes was born in Syracuse, Sicily.
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2. He is credited for Modern Calculus and Analysis. He proved several mathematical principles like- the area of a circle, the area of an ellipse, the area under a parabola.
3. He was the inventor of various weapons, defending Syracuse from attackers with his knowledge and skills.
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4. Archimedes used “Heat or Death Ray” to direct the Sun Rays by using mirrors onto enemy ships, placing them alight.
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5. He also created the Giant Claw and Effective Catapults that would lock onto the hull of a turn the enemy ship.
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6. Hailed in the Mathematics world, he made revolutionary discoveries in spheres, cylinders, circles, parabolas and other areas of geometry.
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7. He discovered an accurate measure of a circle using the irrational number Pi (good and old, 3.14), also known as the Archimedes Constant.
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8. One day the king asked Archimedes to find out if his crown was pure gold or not. He figured it out while taking a bath (Great’s logic, I tell ya’). He found that the displacement of water was proportionate to the volume of his body sunk in it. He ran naked through the streets screaming the now-famous phrase “Eureka!”
9. He did the same thing with the crown to measure the purity of gold, putting down King’s Crown in the water to find the original volume of gold. This theory is also known as the Archimedes Principle. Don’t Think!
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10. Archimedes Screw supported low-lying water, transporting water upwards to artificial or canal streams for irrigating farmland.
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11. He formulated the Law stating: a body, totally or partly immersed in water, is subject to an upward force, recognised as buoyancy (same as the weight of the fluid it displaces).
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But sadly, Archimedes was killed by a Roman soldier when he was 75, solving his mathematical problem. “Do not disturb my circles,” indicating in some drawings he made in the sand, were his last words.
Blog Edited By Ritika Gupta
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