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Many of us know little about Archimedes apart from his "Eureka" exclamation after finding that he could immerse an subject in a full tub of water and gauge the spillage to determine the object's weight. That apparently simple observation not only turned out to Ruler Hieron II of Syracuse that a certain amount of silver have been used in that which was said to be his solid-gold crown, it proven the key guidelines of buoyancy that govern the flotation of hot-air balloons, boats, and denizens of the sea. Archimedes had a profound impact on the development of mathematics and knowledge: from rectangular origins to irrigation devices; planetariums to the balance of boats; polyhedra to pulleys; quantity systems to levers; the value of pi to how big is the world. Yet this same cerebral man developed machines of battle so fearsome, they could have sprung from a devil's darkest creativeness - indeed, weaponry that held at bay the greatest military of antiquity. Ironically, Archimedes' reputation swelled to mythic proportions in the early world for his feats of executive: the hand-cranked irrigation device, often called "Archimedes' screw," and his ingenuous use of levers, pulleys, and ropes to move, single-handedly, a completely laden dispatch! His treatises, rediscovered after 1,000 of collective amnesia in European countries, guided nascent thinkers from the Dark Age range and into the Renaissance. Indeed, Archimedes' cumulative record of success - both in breadth and sophistication - places him one of the exalted ranks of Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein. Eureka Man brings to life, for general visitors, the genius of Archimedes, offering succinct and understandable explanations of some of his more important discoveries and improvements.
