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    ANCIENT GEEKS

    Dec 23, 2019 3 minutes
    BY AMY LEHNER

    FATHER OF INVENTION

    Born around 287 BCE, Archimedes was a Greek physicist, mathematician, astronomer and inventor. Despite being one of the greatest scientists ever, he is probably best known for shouting ‘Eureka!’ in excitement when he solved a knotty problem while taking a bath.

    Among his many credits: He figured out how to determine the volume of an irregularly shaped object by measuring how much water it displaces (hence the bath); determined the ratio of the

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