Archimedes of Syracuse was born in Sicily around 287 BCE and lived for 75 years. During that time, he revolutionized many ...

Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those of his contemporaries. Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

Ancient Greek stories are still told today ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

What’s a eureka moment? Eureka was the sentiment the ancient Greek philosopher Archimedes exclaimed after he stepped into a ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

Archimedes used inscribed and circumscribed polygons such as these in his approximation of pi. Credit: Public domain Ancient Greek mathematicians, including Pythagoras and his followers ...

Ancient Greek stories are still told today ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...