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“What we are told about Archimedes is a mix of a few hard facts and many legends,” Sherman Stein of the University of California, Davis notes in his book Archimedes: What Did He Do Besides Cry Eureka?

The earliest account of scientific discovery that has come down to us is the story of Archimedes, who solved a problem in applied science (a non-destructive assay of a gold crown) while in his bath.

Archimedes didn’t really invent a death ray. But more than 2,200 years after his death, the ancient Greek’s inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts from around ...

ARCHIMEDES is one of the greatest mathematicians ever — and certainly the most famous of ancient Greece. Many of his discoveries were centuries ahead of their time. The Archimedean Screw, a device for ...