Archimedes: The Most Brilliant Mind in History

[@Loveoldies50]

I love the stories about Archimedes. The soldier who killed him had no idea that he had just killed such a brilliant man. I wish we knew more about him. A truly brilliant man!

[@HistoryJunkie]

Couldn’t agree with you more!

[@mikenuzzo3323]

what happened to the soldier? @@HistoryJunkie

[@innosanto]

About the soldier? He was probably lilled also

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

There are rumors, that some of the methods used by Archimedes were similar to calculus, which 'official' discovery is attributed to Newton and Leibniz almost 2000 years later. Archimedes was truly one of the greatest minds ever.

[@wchurchill419]

I like ur screen name. Very clever and cheeky

[@ConnoisseurOfExistence]

@@wchurchill419 Thanks. 😄 Cheeky

[@gmansard641]

If Archimedes had a better numbering system which included zero, he certainly would have developed a system of calculus.

[@comptonGANGBANG]

He was Da Vinci before Davinci for sure one of the most impactful minds of human history

[@HistoryJunkie]

Such an intriguing man 🤓, thanks for watching!

[@wicketandfriendsparody8068]

He was also like the Red Baron, both feared and respected by his enemies, and buried with honor by his foes...

[@wicketandfriendsparody8068]

He sounded very similar to Nikola Tesla for sure. That’s be a great dream team, had they met and got along. Edison was an A hole to Tesla lol 😂

[@DwarfDt]

​@@wicketandfriendsparody8068isaac Newton esk levels to the game for sure 😅

[@marcviens8590]

Well narrated story of an intriguing subject. I found the lack of fancy video-switching and CGI most relaxing and helped to absorb the story line. Kudos for that! What I find most ingenious of Archimedes is the brain-power to understand the principle of the inclined plane and then imagine wrapping it round about a cylinder to create not only another-level of hydraulic lifter but the very object that holds our mechanical civilization together! Then further to rigorously elucidate the mathematics in such a clear fashion to be able to be understood today? Nearly unbelievable. Thanks for creating this and sharing!

[@HistoryJunkie]

Hey Marc, thank you for this feedback! Great points you bring up here too. He truly set the bar higher for civilization as we know it.

[@billshiff2060]

Left out his most important achievements. The geometrical/mathematical proving of the value of PI as 3.141 using a method that foreshadowed calculus. Also left out is the fact that General Marcellus took from Archimedes shop , 2 machines that were able to show the positions of the planets. He kept one and donated 1 to the Temple of Venus in Rome. These machines are likely the origin of the mind bending Antikythera mechanism. A computing device so advanced no one believed it could be from that time. It was at least 1400 years ahead of it's time.

[@hm5142]

Archimedes was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He came close to inventing calculus 2000 years before it was discovered by Newton and Leibnitz in the 17th century.

[@TheAtheist22]

There wouldn't have been a Da Vinci or a Newton without Archimedes.

[@HistoryJunkie]

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[@WeAreNotAmused]

It's a. Saying " Standing on the shoulders of Giants " I actually have long held that vendors who came before us the the earliest inventors who had the least amount of scientific knowledge or actually the greatest inventors because they had very little to work upon that was already groundwork laid nowadays people can do incredible things but they're standing on the shoulders of giants the same could be said about the sum total of art and music and other kinds of work as well though so it's intuitive to praise the collective and not just the individual it's quite conceivable that many of the Great geniuses we know had amuse or many muses or friends that were sort of like a sounding board or given over to the process of helping them to think about things or talk it out cuz all men rise and fall but it seems as though recently with the shows about reincarnation where kids can remember these details of everyone in this person's life before they died and then go and verify with certain people that knew the person that everything this kid knows is accurate I'm pretty well I'm pretty well believe in that reincarnation is a high probability and that if you don't learn your life you don't get to rise to be a great inventor or something of that higher aperture you are eternally relegated to stay like a worm or something that gets stepped on and then repeats unless you learn your lesson about compassion and not being so desirous of things take care of yourself of course nutrition and sustenance what-have-you Many men die crushed under weight of their Own hubris or pridefulness gratitude and humility imparts much wisdom 😊

[@aab-el9bd]

Gauss is much more important than davinci. Its archimedes, newton, gauss, the most superior.

[@MrAllen-fv9cj]

He also met Indiana Jones....

[@JustHaveFaith23]

Lol facts

[@JOHNGIBS]

INDEED 😅

[@Fandango-i2y]

Jr.!

[@jimhays2772]

Siracruz ? Odd narriation. Good content, i saw once a piece on the evedence pointing to Archimedes being the one behind the Antikethera mechanism and wish i could find more.

[@HighWarlordJC]

The way this ends with the screw diagram and his final words makes me wonder if Archimedes was on the verge of inventing an elevator. After all, a screw inside a circle(cylinder) functions as an elevator.

[@HistoryJunkie]

Love that idea, thanks for watching!❤️

[@nobbytang]

This is a Eureka moment !!…

[@doctorcrafts]

Weird inflections. AI?

[@philliprobinson7724]

Hi. Archimedes didn't need to measure the volume of displaced water to find if king Hiero's crown was an alloy. One kg of pure gold and one kg of gold alloy weigh the same in air, but weighed under water the alloy is slightly lighter, the extra flotation of the lighter silver making the difference. Weight scales in those days were sensitive enough to register tiny differences, unlike measures of water volume. He adjusted the weight of the pure gold by adding or subtracting gold until it was exactly the same weight (in air) as the suspect alloy object. Weighing both in water then revealed the truth. Archimedes and his backers became very rich and financed his Academy by testing the purity of gold objects owned by the ruling classes all over the ancient world. It was the birth of forensic science. Cheers, P.R.

[@Ryanisthere]

its also rumored the Archimedes laid the foundations of calculus 1800 years before newton, but a buhdist monk accidentally wrote over the important documents, leading to calculus being lost until newton and leibniz

[@innosanto]

It is not rumored, some notes have been found which alude to such

[@WeAreNotAmused]

It isn't necessarily only his intelligence but rather his persistence of study. And willingness to submerge his self into the quietude of focused concentration of replicated. Already. Widely held. A consummate professional such as this. Is intellectually. Astute. Moreso was his. Intrigue the. Redundancy carried out. So. Many times. Often times reveal a truth. That was yet unknow until the brain fully signs off on enlistment to the cause fully acquiescent and. Even intoxicated by incisive thinking

[@Rico-Suave_]

Watched all of it 7:50

[@HistoryJunkie]

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[@srinivasch-re2oq]

Really he is more intelligent than Einstein. In those very old days around 250 BC when there was no much exposure to science and technology, the way he thaught was really great, if he had been there in 18 th or 19th century, he would have contributed a lot.

[@rize4957]

Indiana Jones got me interested to know Archimedes

[@MrKinghuman]

the mispronunciation of Syracuse is driving me nuts.

[@lamodernista]

AI voice-over generated?

[@WeAreNotAmused]

If there were witness to his running naked to the king sort of lends Credence to the. Authenticity of the golden wreath story

[@wchurchill419]

Man...Archimedes was a straight up G!

[@benstevinson764]

I Believe that Archimedes Was the inventor of the Anthikira Mechanism

[@Unclekitty9926]

hahaha

[@mikenuzzo3323]

what is that ?

[@dharialurie2195]

"Newfound Awareness Through life many stumble, seeking empty titles Endless is the strife, spellbound by earthly glories Wallowing in filth and mire, saddled by ills Regret comes late, with reflection in the waning years Our lives are innately divine and were Heaven born The universe faced calamity, and nothing could be done To this earth we thus came, to await the Creator Heaven again becomes possible to any who shed their karma and are cleansed of sin God’s path is available to those not blinded by attachments to this world Atheism is backed by a feral thing Evolution is a dogma wicked and without base Man’s conduct today strays far from the Divine Many a view and belief prove to be obstacles How many can be saved? How many shall make it through? August 20, 2018" Master Li Hongzhi (Hong Yin VI, from Falun Dafa teachings)

[@bryancollins6903]

So we didn't need Alien astronauts to teach men how to think for themselves and solve scientific unknown problems??