Archimedes

Part I of Essay
Few certain details remain about the life of antiquit^s greatest mathematician, . We know he was born in 287 B.C. around Syracuse from a report about 1400 years after the fact. tells about his father, Pheidias, in his book The Sandreckoner. Pheidias was an astronomer, who ....

Part II of Essay
.... the average mind of that period would have no interest in the Archimedean spiral, but would pay attention to an invention that could move the earth. ^? most famous story is attributed to a Roman architect under Emperor Augustus, named Vitruvius. Vitruvius asked to devise some way to test the weight of a gold wreath. was unsuccessful until one day as he entered a full bath, he noticed that the deeper he submerged into the tub, the more water flowed out of the tub. This made him realize that the amount of water that flowed out of the tub ....