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was a Greek mathematician and scientist. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily in the year 287 B.C. He was educated in Alexandria, Egypt. Due to the lack of information about Greek mathematics, many Greek mathematicians and their works are hardly known. is the excepti ....

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.... by 80 million billion zeros. One of accomplishments was his creation of the lever and pulley system. proved his theory of the lever and pulley to the king by moving a ship, of the royal fleet, back into the ocean. Then, moved the ship into the sea with only a few movements of his hand, which caused a lever and pulley device to move the ship. This story has become famous because said, "Give me a place to stand on and I will move the earth. Another invention he invented was the Archimedean screw. This machine was built for raising water to highland areas in Egypt that could not receive water directly from the Nile River. This device is still us ....