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Archimedes and the mystery of the crown

Archimedes and the crownBy: Justin and Edward

StoryIn the first century BC the Roman architect Vitruvius related a story of how Archimedes uncovered a fraud in the manufacture of a golden crown commissioned by Hiero II, the king of Syracuse. Suspecting that the goldsmith might have replaced some of the gold given to him by an equal weight of silver, Hiero asked Archimedes to determine whether the wreath was pure gold. And because the wreath was a holy object dedicated to the gods, he could not disturb the wreath in any way.00595857565554535251504948474645444342414039383736353433323130292827262524232221201918171615141312111009080706050403020100About Archimedes Archimedes was born about 287 BC, in Syracuse, Sicily in what is now known as Italy. He was aGreekscientist. He was aninventor, anastronomer, and amathematician. He was very famous during his life and he may be one of the most clever people who have ever lived. His father was Phidias, an astronomer, and he may have been in the family of a king of Syracuse. Syracuse was a rich Greek city, on the sea shore in Sicily. When Archimedes was about ten years old, he left Syracuse to study in Alexandria, in Egypt in the school of Euclid, who was a famous mathematician. Not much is known about the personal life of Archimedes, for example, whether he was married or if he had children. A friend of Archimedes called Heracleides wrote a biography of him but sadly, this work is lost. Archimedes died trying to defend Syracuse from the Roman`s. You Were!Wrong

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What else did Archimedes do?Discovered the method to determine the area and volumes of circles, spheres and cones.Discovered the actual value of PI.Archimedes invented the water screw, a machine for raising water to bring it to fields.His work with levers and pulleys led to the inventions of compound pulley systems and cranes..

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