He was a Syracausian mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. In his youth, he is known to have left to study in Alexandria, Egypt. Archimedes died during the Second Punic War, when Roman forces under General Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after a two-year-long siege. His discoveries and inventions include, but not limited to, determining volumes of irregular shapes, law of buoyancy, surface area and volume of sphere, defense weapons as Archimedes’ Claw (ship shaker) and catapults.
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