Life of Archimedes (jan 1, 287 BC – jan 1, 212 BC)
Description:
"a native of Syracuse who was interested in nearly everything. A clever inventor, he devised a water screw to draw water from a lower to a higher level, a compound pulley to lift heavy weights, and several war machines. His chief interest, however, lay in pure mathematics. He founded the science of hydrostatics (the study of fluids at rest) and discovered the principle that the volume of a solid floating in a liquid is equal to the volume of the liquid displaced by the solid."Added to timeline:
Date:
jan 1, 287 BC
jan 1, 212 BC
~ 75 years