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Archimedes of Syracuse was born in around 287 BCE in Sicily, and in the roughly 75 years he was around he basically invented ...

Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those ...

Archimedes lived in Syracuse on the island of Sicily in the third century B.C. At that time, Syracuse was one of the most influential cities of the ancient world, according to Scientific American.

Back when Plato was philosophizing about virtue and Archimedes was defining pi, the most beautiful corner of the sprawling Greek Empire was Syracuse.

Cicero discovering the tomb of Archimedes, by Pierre-Henri de Valenciennes, 1787 / photo public domain at Wikimedia Commons Ancient Rome When Cicero found Archimedes’ tomb in Syracuse.

The death ray legend has Archimedes using mirrors to concentrate sunlight to incinerate Roman ships attacking his home of Syracuse, the ancient city-state in southeast Sicily.

But you might not know much about the genius guy who first calculated pi: Archimedes of Syracuse, Sicily, one of the greatest mathematicians of the ancient world.

Archimedes was born in Syracuse, in modern-day Sicily, in 287 BC and educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Extract from Infinite Secrets, documentary on the extraordinary life and genius of Archimedes ...