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| Archimedes |
was born
in Syracuse Italy, in 287 BC.
Archimedes
was the greatest scientist before Newton.
He was a
mathematician, physicist, optics expert,
astronomer,
writer, and discoverer.
He got new
name of a father of experimental
science
because he proved
his entire
discovery with experiment.
Archimedes
was the best friend of Hireon II,
the
Syracuse king in that era. One day,
the kind
ordered a goldsmith to make a crown.
The king
was suspicious that the crown was not
made from
a pure gold. To prove the goldsmith
dishonesty,
the king ordered Archimedes to prove it.
At home,
Archimedes weighed a pure gold, which weight
was the
same with the king crown,
then the
gold is immersed in a vessel
that full
of water. The overflowed
water was
caught and weighed.
The same
method was conducted to the king crown.
As a
result, the water that overflowed from the
second
vessel was more than the water
that
overflowed from the first vessel.
Based on
this case, Archimedes
was able
to prove that the king crown
was not
made from a pure gold.
Alongside
with that, Archimedes’s
principle
was found.
As a young man, Archimedes studying in Alexandria Egypt.
At
that time he became friends with two mathematicians, Conon and Eratosthenes.
Conon is highly regarded Archimedes mathematician.
While at the same
mathematician Eratosthenes was an astronomer who like to preen.
Archimedes
often share their thoughts and discuss with them.
Conon then died and
correspondence with Archimedes replaced by Dositheus, nurd Conon.
In 1906, JL Heiberg made a dramatic discovery in
Constantinople,
the "letter" of Archimedes to Eratosthenes that
contain mechanical or suatiu teorama medtode.
In this letter Archimedes heavy
gauge, in the imagination.
In order to know the area or know the volume
(content) something known through something known.
He pioneered the science is
based on extracting facts.
This fact is then used as comparison to later be
proven mathematically.
Another version says that Archimedes studied at Euclid
students.
Can be referred to as a mathematician Archimedes once physicist first
to discover the "war machine", mechanical tools and water pumps for
pick-up the Nile to irrigate the lands throughout nation.
How Archimedes thinking?
At the time of Archimedes, is the Roman empire that has a
number of corrupt officials.
While Carthage became the ruler of the kingdom of
the colony covers an area
along the coast of Africa to the Spanish. Romans did
to Carthage attacks twice so there Punic war.
Romans conquered Carthage.
Not long after, Carthage was able to get up and go back to
the Roman force attack.
Tempers third Punic war volumes.
The Roman army
destroyed the city and massacred its inhabitants in 146 BC.
During the Punic war, the Roman army led by Claudius
Marcellus.
In 214 BC they attacked Syracuse.
The main reason is because the
king of Syracuse in a relationship with Carthage.
While other reason is because
the Roman soldiers can always conquer a small area with ease.