When the name Archimedes is mentioned, two totally different things come to mind. One might think of Archimedes of Syracuse, considered one of the greatest physicists and mathematicians of the ancient world. On the other hand, some might think of that little owl who is Merlin's right-hand man in Disney's animated version of The Sword in the Stone. This report will focus on the human life of Archimedes and not on the cartoon. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay Archimedes lived from 287 to 212 BC, and details regarding his personal life are unclear because the only biography of Archimedes (written by his friend Heracleides) has been lost for centuries. Therefore some accounts of Archimedes' life and his successes are unverifiable, while some incidents regarding his successes are legends (Abbot 13). Archimedes is believed to have been born in Syracuse, Sicily, then a Greek colony. His father Phidias was an astronomer and his family was of noble fame, perhaps even related to King Hiero II (Abbot 13). After his stay in Syracuse, Archimedes moved to Alexandria to study under Conon to further his mathematics and physics. . Unlike most other mathematicians and physicists, Archimedes did not remain in Alexandria for the rest of his life, he returned home after his break in Alexandria. Returning to Sicily, Archimedes dedicated the rest of his life to the serious study of the physics of mathematics and physics (Abbot 13). The best known result of Archimedes' work in Syracuse is Archimedes' Principle which states that a body immersed in water will displace a volume of fluid that weighs as much as the body in air (Abbot 14) or a body immersed in fluid experiences l the action of a vertical force equal to the weight of the displaced fluid, and a body floating in the fluid displaces its own weight of fluid (Via 42). Immersed means completely or partially submerged. For example, if we completely immerse a 3 N brick in a bucket of water, the brick will weigh about 1 N in the water but will displace 2 N of water for a total of 3 N. In other words, if you were to enter a pool of water filled to the brim, your normal weight would be equal to your weight underwater plus the weight of the water that was displaced from the pool. It doesn't matter how far you descend or what shape your body takes. Furthermore, a completely submerged object will always displace a volume of liquid equal to its own volume (Hewitt 278). Archimedes is said to have discovered this principle by letting water overflow from a bathtub. He was so elated by his discovery that he ran around the city naked shouting "Eureka!" which means "I got it!" . Archimedes put his new principle to the test when the question of whether or not time arose. King Hiero's new crown was of pure gold. Solving the mystery without damaging the crown in any way was a mystery. But Archimedes realized that if the crown was mixed with silver, which is less dense than gold, the crown would have a greater volume and therefore displace more water than if it were pure gold. According to legend, the crown was discovered to be a mixture of gold and silver, and the goldsmith who made the crown was immediately executed (Abbot 14). Archimedes also achieved many other achievements in the fields of statics and hydrostatics. In statics, Archimedes is credited with having developed the inflexible proofs underlying the law of the lever. Archimedes was not the first to use the lever but he was the first to demonstrate mathematically that the ratio between the effort used to lift the load is equal to the inverse ratio of the distances of the effort and the load from the fulcrum of the lever. lever. Archimedes said that if he had 15)