Archimedes: An Accredable Man Or An Incredible Fraud?

Archimedes: An Incredible Man or An Incredible Fraud? Archimedes was considered throughout his lifetime as “the great geometer”, but did a man as great as this truly exist? Should he be ranked with Newton and Gauss? Archimedes was born 287 BC in Syracuse, Sicily, which was a Greek City at the time. No one knows his last name or much about his family life because there are no official records. He was educated by a man named Euclid in a school located in Alexandria, Egypt. Archimedes lived in a Greek society that turned away from Greek “gods”and realized that their myths could all be explained by science. As a result, the Greeks were the first people to do science. The sciences included the alphabet, formulas, etc. Archimedes' father, Phidias, was an astronomer. His passion for this type of society encouraged Archimedes to became devoted as well. The belief that Archimedes was related to the King of Syracuse, Hieron, gave credence to the
One invention is the Archimedes' Screw created in Egypt . It looks like a corkscrew within an empty tube. Turning the screw results in water being pulled up the tube. Another invention is the Calculation of Pi. It is also believed that he created the Burning Mirrors; however, newly found evidence suggest that this is unlikely. Archimedes' greatest invention was the Compound Pulley Systems. When he allegedly made the statement, "Give me a lever and I'll make the earth move!" , the king challenged him to prove it. Archimedes did so by successfully launching a ship with a large lever. Other inventions that were created by Archimedes were the planetarium, the water organ, the Archimedes' principle, the heat ray, and the formula for the area of circle. Even though he is most famous for his work with levers and Pi, the greatest myth of his career was the creation of the Claw of Archimedes. It consists of a crane and four oxens. This device was used to capsize