11-24-2015, 10:38 AM
Yes and he invented a device to move water from a low to high elevation. And burning mirrors among many other inventions.
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archime...tents.html
http://www.math.nyu.edu/~crorres/Archime...tents.html
(11-24-2015, 10:24 AM)Eagle1 Wrote: Wasn't Archimedes responsible for the laws of nature having to do with how water behaves? For example, I think Archimedes was responsible for calculations about buoyancy. I remember some fable about how he was taking a bath when the thought popped into his head....why is the water displacing?