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All matter is made up of atoms and dates from the fourth century BC.With his law of floating bodies, known as Archimedes’ Principle, already established in the third century BC, Archimedes provided a way of finding the specific gravity of a substance, useful in metallurgy and chemistry! The tendency for

Take no prisoners at the Siege of Syracuse (214 – 212 BC)Archimedes is especially important for his discovery of the relation between the surface  and  volume  of a sphere  and its circumscribing cylinder. The scientist died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which