Archimedes During The Siege Of Syracuse
Archimedes
The genius who changed our way of thinking forever. Thesis Statement
Archimedes was a genius because of his discoveries in the scientific world, including the lever and the idea that items displace their weight in water.
● One of Archimedes’s great achievements was the water screw (background) which is an ingenious way of getting water from a “low-lying body of water into irrigation systems”. ● During the siege of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes developed a type of large claw or beak that extended from a crane of sorts, grabbed onto enemy boat and either capsized it or threw it unexpectedly back down.
● Among the greatest of Archimedes’s famous war machines was the Architonnerre which is a giant steam-powered cannon. …show more content…
He invented it in the third century B.C. The records were actually found in one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks, but Da Vinci credited it to Archimedes.
● Another war machine credited to Archimedes is the “Death Ray”. It has not yet been proven whether it really existed, but if it did, it would be set something like mirrors facing the sun and the Roman ships and, with the mirrors, focusing the sun’s light and heat onto the ships to burn the rigging and stern.
Archimedes’ Inventions
Archimedes’ Principles and Ideas
● One of the most famous and iconic discoveries of Archimedes is the idea that items displace their weight in water when placed in the water itself. This principle is actually called the Archimedes’ Principle, or the physical law of buoyancy.
● One of Archimedes’ ideas in the field of math was that if he put polygons of 5+ sides around a circle and the same polygon scaled a tiny bit down INSIDE the circle he could get a close estimate of pi.
● Archimedes was the first to coin the idea of infinity.
Pictures
Fun Facts
● When Archimedes discovered the principle of
displacement of water in his daily bath, he leaped out of his tub and ran naked through the streets shouting “Eureka” meaning, “I have found it!”
● When the Romans conquered Syracuse on
Archimedes’s last day on Earth, the Roman soldiers stepped into his lab room and he told them “Not to disturb him.”
● Archimedes’s father was an astronomer.
● Archimedes invented “the Beast Number”,
(10 to the power of 8 all to the power of 10 to the power of 8) to the power of 10 to the power of 8. All because of his irritability at
“people saying it’s impossible to calculate the grains of sand on a beach.”
"Archimedes." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 1 Jul. 2014. Web.
2/25/2018
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Timeline
●Archimedes was born
287 B.C
Archimedes Life
287 BC - 212 BC Inventions of Archimedes Screw, Death Ray, hydrostatics, and the Archimedes Claw
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Archimedes traveled to Alexandria to study
269 B.C
●
returns to Syracuse
263 B.C
Inventions: Archimedes Claw, screw, and water buoyancy theories
262 BC - 215 B.C Actual start date is unknown.
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King Hiero's Death
216 B.C
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King Hiero's Successor's Death
215 B.C
●
Roman's siege of Syracuse
212 B.C.
●
Archimedes death, killed by a soldier who was sent to get Archimedes out alive.
212 B.C.
Timeline (continued)
Comparison
● Was a mathematician ● Died in
212
BCE
● Taught at a school ● Didn’t care for logic so much as his principles worked. ● Was born in
Syracuse
● Were both great men of science. ● Both changed the world with their way of thinking. ● Lived in
Greece
● Was a philosopher ● Died in 398
BCE
● Started a school ● Loved logic
● Was born in
Stagira.
Archimedes Aristotle
Goodbye!!!
Sources
● Mastin, L. (2010). Retrieved March 01, 2018, from
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/hellenistic_archimedes.html
● Toomer, G. J. (2018, February 08). Archimedes. Retrieved March 02, 2018, from
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archimedes
● History - Archimedes. (n.d.). Retrieved March 06, 2018, from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/archimedes.shtml
● Gow, M. (2005). Archimedes: mathematical genius of the ancient world. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow
● The Archimedes Palimpsest. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2018, from
http://archimedespalimpsest.org/about/history/archimedes.php
The genius who changed our way of thinking forever. Thesis Statement
Archimedes was a genius because of his discoveries in the scientific world, including the lever and the idea that items displace their weight in water.
● One of Archimedes’s great achievements was the water screw (background) which is an ingenious way of getting water from a “low-lying body of water into irrigation systems”. ● During the siege of Syracuse by the Romans, Archimedes developed a type of large claw or beak that extended from a crane of sorts, grabbed onto enemy boat and either capsized it or threw it unexpectedly back down.
● Among the greatest of Archimedes’s famous war machines was the Architonnerre which is a giant steam-powered cannon. …show more content…
He invented it in the third century B.C. The records were actually found in one of Leonardo Da Vinci’s notebooks, but Da Vinci credited it to Archimedes.
● Another war machine credited to Archimedes is the “Death Ray”. It has not yet been proven whether it really existed, but if it did, it would be set something like mirrors facing the sun and the Roman ships and, with the mirrors, focusing the sun’s light and heat onto the ships to burn the rigging and stern.
Archimedes’ Inventions
Archimedes’ Principles and Ideas
● One of the most famous and iconic discoveries of Archimedes is the idea that items displace their weight in water when placed in the water itself. This principle is actually called the Archimedes’ Principle, or the physical law of buoyancy.
● One of Archimedes’ ideas in the field of math was that if he put polygons of 5+ sides around a circle and the same polygon scaled a tiny bit down INSIDE the circle he could get a close estimate of pi.
● Archimedes was the first to coin the idea of infinity.
Pictures
Fun Facts
● When Archimedes discovered the principle of
displacement of water in his daily bath, he leaped out of his tub and ran naked through the streets shouting “Eureka” meaning, “I have found it!”
● When the Romans conquered Syracuse on
Archimedes’s last day on Earth, the Roman soldiers stepped into his lab room and he told them “Not to disturb him.”
● Archimedes’s father was an astronomer.
● Archimedes invented “the Beast Number”,
(10 to the power of 8 all to the power of 10 to the power of 8) to the power of 10 to the power of 8. All because of his irritability at
“people saying it’s impossible to calculate the grains of sand on a beach.”
"Archimedes." Famous Scientists. famousscientists.org. 1 Jul. 2014. Web.
2/25/2018
(-- removed HTML --) .
(for quotes at bottom)
Timeline
●Archimedes was born
287 B.C
Archimedes Life
287 BC - 212 BC Inventions of Archimedes Screw, Death Ray, hydrostatics, and the Archimedes Claw
●
Archimedes traveled to Alexandria to study
269 B.C
●
returns to Syracuse
263 B.C
Inventions: Archimedes Claw, screw, and water buoyancy theories
262 BC - 215 B.C Actual start date is unknown.
●
King Hiero's Death
216 B.C
●
King Hiero's Successor's Death
215 B.C
●
Roman's siege of Syracuse
212 B.C.
●
Archimedes death, killed by a soldier who was sent to get Archimedes out alive.
212 B.C.
Timeline (continued)
Comparison
● Was a mathematician ● Died in
212
BCE
● Taught at a school ● Didn’t care for logic so much as his principles worked. ● Was born in
Syracuse
● Were both great men of science. ● Both changed the world with their way of thinking. ● Lived in
Greece
● Was a philosopher ● Died in 398
BCE
● Started a school ● Loved logic
● Was born in
Stagira.
Archimedes Aristotle
Goodbye!!!
Sources
● Mastin, L. (2010). Retrieved March 01, 2018, from
http://www.storyofmathematics.com/hellenistic_archimedes.html
● Toomer, G. J. (2018, February 08). Archimedes. Retrieved March 02, 2018, from
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Archimedes
● History - Archimedes. (n.d.). Retrieved March 06, 2018, from
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/archimedes.shtml
● Gow, M. (2005). Archimedes: mathematical genius of the ancient world. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow
● The Archimedes Palimpsest. (n.d.). Retrieved March 14, 2018, from
http://archimedespalimpsest.org/about/history/archimedes.php