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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.
The Roman statesman Marcus Tullius Cicero discovered the tomb of Archimedes. He found the site, which had become overgrown with vegetation, approximately a century and a half after the mathematician's death.1