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Archimedes
Archimedes, oil on canvas by Giuseppe Nogari, 18th century; in the Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow. Archimedes was an ancient Greek mathematician and inventor.
Archimedes was born in approximately 287 BCE in Syracuse, located on the island of Sicily.12