Yes, the famous Archimede who we all know him through his famous word: "Eureka! Eureka!"
What was his true story? and what secret did he hide in his manuscript?
The story apparently begins in 287 BC. He was asked by the king of Sicily to inspect the golden crown, claiming that some silver has been injected in it, hence not a purely golden crown.
While immersing in the bath tub, preparing for a long hot shower, Archimede realized that the level of the water increased the more he dug deeper. Hence the addition of his body to a once static element, increased the volume of the latter. And that was when he ran off the streets of Italy, naked, screaming that he found the solution, Eureka!!
He managed to catch the smith and prove that he was a fraud, he got famous for his genius methods.
Sooner later, he became more famous through his ideas for army machinery. The Romans feared him the most, he never ceased to amaze them and beat them during random attacks.
He was also the genius behind π, the famous mathematical constant which confused us all during a certain period of time.
His witnessed miracles, inventions, ideas, functions, discoveries led the Romans to gain interest in him and want him for their own.
They sent an army to attack the city, while our famous hero was in his chamber drawing several mathematical shapes. A soldier walked in on him and when Archimede noticed him he immediately yelled: "Do Not Disturb The Circles!!"
The soldier immediately drew out his sword and stabbed the famous naked man who managed to leave an eternal impact on our lives.
Archimede's last manuscript was then lost in time. His death was followed by the Dark Age, where mathematics and science were put aside, and people were contaminated by the so-called 'stupidness' disease - which we still suffer from till this day.
The 1th century was called the Renaissance Age, where geniuses where born and discoveries were made. Some of the greatest artists, philosophers, astronomers, scientists appeared during this era. It wasn't till after all this time that a manuscript was found in the Middle East.
This manuscript contained some buried secrets which were slowly vanishing. Having traveled all the way to the Middle East, it was guarded in a library where monks used to retreat to and write down prayers.
Those monks ran out of paper, and needed something to write on their wishes and dreams. They took the manuscript, folded the papers several times, soaked it, and managed to reduce the density of Archimede's ink.
They then wrote on top of those lost letters, and almost whipped them out of existence.
Fortunately for all of us, the manuscript ended up in a library in Constantinople, where a Greek expert set eyes on it and found several lines that could only belong to the famous Archimede.
It is said that if the manuscript was found during the 15th century, mathematics would've taken a different route. Archimede's mathematical methods would've made today's math more developed - Thank God it was recently found!
The Greek expert started studying the manuscript using only a magnifying glass. His long spent hours analyzing the secrets of a genius were interrupted by World War 1. The book was then lost again.
In the 20th century, a professor found a ripped page in Cambridge University. He carefully examined it using UV lights and immediately knew that it Archimede's lost manuscript. He went to the university asking where it came from, and it turned out that some guy was at the library and found this old book. He opened and examined it, and found some interesting diagrams. So he ripped a page out while the librarian was munching on a cookie and stole a masterpiece.
He then donated the page to the university.
The book was thought to have vanished in thin air...
Until one day, another scientist in France gets a call from a French family claiming to have an old book which they would like to sell. From the brief description they've given him, he already had his suspicions. After meeting with them, it was official, Archimede's manuscript has resurfaced out of nowhere. The French family claim to have it for two generations. The grandfather was a collector, he visited Turkey back in the days and came upon this book. He bought it and got it back to Paris where it's been eating dust.
The book was put for auction where an anonymous buyer spent 2 million dollars in order to acquire the manuscript.
Scientists and historians were really intrigued by the existence of the book and has asked its new owner to borrow it in order to carefully examine and study it.
The guy was a nice dude and agreed to lend them the book.
A team was then immediately formed and the examination began.
The book contained the rational behind Archimede's mathematical conclusions. It suggests that he has already discovered the concept of 'infinity' and was already practicing modern mathematics. He discovered what we know now as calculus in the 3rd century BC!
If Galileo, DaVinci, Michael Angelo, Newton, Copernicus, Bacon and the likes, were aware that those laws were already discovered from before, then maybe today we would've in mars, sitting at home infront of the TV, watching your favorite 'Earth' show.
I love it when they find things from the past. Who knew that some random person back in the 3rd century was already doing calculus, inventing Pi and infinity and God knows what else.
Archimede, you will never be forgotten.
What was his true story? and what secret did he hide in his manuscript?
While immersing in the bath tub, preparing for a long hot shower, Archimede realized that the level of the water increased the more he dug deeper. Hence the addition of his body to a once static element, increased the volume of the latter. And that was when he ran off the streets of Italy, naked, screaming that he found the solution, Eureka!!
He managed to catch the smith and prove that he was a fraud, he got famous for his genius methods.
Sooner later, he became more famous through his ideas for army machinery. The Romans feared him the most, he never ceased to amaze them and beat them during random attacks.
He was also the genius behind π, the famous mathematical constant which confused us all during a certain period of time.
His witnessed miracles, inventions, ideas, functions, discoveries led the Romans to gain interest in him and want him for their own.
They sent an army to attack the city, while our famous hero was in his chamber drawing several mathematical shapes. A soldier walked in on him and when Archimede noticed him he immediately yelled: "Do Not Disturb The Circles!!"
The soldier immediately drew out his sword and stabbed the famous naked man who managed to leave an eternal impact on our lives.
The 1th century was called the Renaissance Age, where geniuses where born and discoveries were made. Some of the greatest artists, philosophers, astronomers, scientists appeared during this era. It wasn't till after all this time that a manuscript was found in the Middle East.
This manuscript contained some buried secrets which were slowly vanishing. Having traveled all the way to the Middle East, it was guarded in a library where monks used to retreat to and write down prayers.
Those monks ran out of paper, and needed something to write on their wishes and dreams. They took the manuscript, folded the papers several times, soaked it, and managed to reduce the density of Archimede's ink.
They then wrote on top of those lost letters, and almost whipped them out of existence.
Fortunately for all of us, the manuscript ended up in a library in Constantinople, where a Greek expert set eyes on it and found several lines that could only belong to the famous Archimede.
It is said that if the manuscript was found during the 15th century, mathematics would've taken a different route. Archimede's mathematical methods would've made today's math more developed - Thank God it was recently found!
The Greek expert started studying the manuscript using only a magnifying glass. His long spent hours analyzing the secrets of a genius were interrupted by World War 1. The book was then lost again.
In the 20th century, a professor found a ripped page in Cambridge University. He carefully examined it using UV lights and immediately knew that it Archimede's lost manuscript. He went to the university asking where it came from, and it turned out that some guy was at the library and found this old book. He opened and examined it, and found some interesting diagrams. So he ripped a page out while the librarian was munching on a cookie and stole a masterpiece.
The book was thought to have vanished in thin air...
Until one day, another scientist in France gets a call from a French family claiming to have an old book which they would like to sell. From the brief description they've given him, he already had his suspicions. After meeting with them, it was official, Archimede's manuscript has resurfaced out of nowhere. The French family claim to have it for two generations. The grandfather was a collector, he visited Turkey back in the days and came upon this book. He bought it and got it back to Paris where it's been eating dust.
The book was put for auction where an anonymous buyer spent 2 million dollars in order to acquire the manuscript.
Scientists and historians were really intrigued by the existence of the book and has asked its new owner to borrow it in order to carefully examine and study it.
The guy was a nice dude and agreed to lend them the book.
A team was then immediately formed and the examination began.
The book contained the rational behind Archimede's mathematical conclusions. It suggests that he has already discovered the concept of 'infinity' and was already practicing modern mathematics. He discovered what we know now as calculus in the 3rd century BC!If Galileo, DaVinci, Michael Angelo, Newton, Copernicus, Bacon and the likes, were aware that those laws were already discovered from before, then maybe today we would've in mars, sitting at home infront of the TV, watching your favorite 'Earth' show.
I love it when they find things from the past. Who knew that some random person back in the 3rd century was already doing calculus, inventing Pi and infinity and God knows what else.
Archimede, you will never be forgotten.
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