Western Culture Global Presents The Top 100 Heroes of Western Culture These individuals have most contributed to replacing ignorance with knowledge, savagery with civilization, disease with health, tyranny with liberty, poverty with abundance, and despair with happiness. #45: Archimedes (287 BC–212 BC) Archimedes (287 BC–212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer who is properly regarded as one of the preeminent minds of the ancient world and the "godfather of invention." His contributions in geometry revolutionized the subject and his methods anticipated the integral calculus 2,000 years before Newton and Leibniz. He combined a genius for mathematics with a physical insight. This combination produced the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and the explanation of the principle of the lever as well as many innovation machines, including siege engines and the screw pump that bears his name. Fortunately, at least some of the ideas of Archimedes survived the Middle Ages and were an exhilarating source of knowledge and inspiration to scientists of the Renaissance. Go to #46: Lavoisier Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — Home Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Numerical Order Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Century Top 100 Western Culture Heroes — by Category
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