Ancient Greek thinkers made big discoveries ... Dom: He did all of this over 2000 years ago. Dick: Archimedes was a Greek guy with a great beard. Born a ridiculously long time ago around the ...

Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those of his contemporaries. Born in Syracuse, Sicily (then part of Greece), in about 287 B.C., Archimedes traveled to Egypt ...

The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

Named for its inventor, the Greek mathematician Archimedes (237-212 BCE), the Archimedes screw is a device for raising water. Essentially, it is a large screw, open at both ends and encased lengthwise ...

Archimedes Would Be Proud of the Golden Find by Archaeologists in Greece The ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor, Archimedes, who hailed from Syracuse in ...

Legends about the ingenuity of the Greek inventor and mathematician Archimedes were so powerful that for centuries, many scholars have believed he was able to use mirrors to set Roman ships alight ...

This story appears in the March 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. Technically it’s ancient technology. But now the two-millennia-old principle of the Greek mathematician Archimedes has ...

Scientists have achieved a major breakthrough in the construction of dynamic supramolecular snub cubes according to Tianjin University a participant ...