When1: -264
When2: -212
Who: Archimedes
What: physicist/mathematician/inventor
Where: Syracuse, Sicily
works\ Archimedes' screw
Detail: He lived -287 to -212 and invented Archimedes' theorem, Archimedes spiral, Archimedes axiom, and Archimedes real-number property. He used exhaustion method to find pi and sphere and conic areas and volumes. He used completeness axiom. He found Archimedes buoyancy law {Archimedes' principle, Archimedes} {Archimedes principle, Archimedes}. He put a screw {Archimedes' screw} {Archimedes screw} inside a cylinder, to lift water.
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