Archimedes
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c. 287 BC – 212 BC · 75 years · Syracuse · Europe
Discovered the law of buoyancy and the lever, approximated π; his machines defended Syracuse, and he died when Rome took the city.
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Portrait: Domenico Fetti · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
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Contemporaries around the world
Europe
- Scipio Africanus — Roman general, 51 years younger
- Cato the Elder — Roman statesman and writer, 53 years younger
Africa
- Hannibal — Carthaginian general, 40 years younger
- Eratosthenes — scholar, head of the Library of Alexandria, 11 years younger
- Euclid — ancient Greek mathematician, 38 years older
- Arsinoe II — queen of Ptolemaic Egypt, 29 years older
Asia
- Qin Shi Huang — first emperor of China, 28 years younger
- Ashoka — Maurya emperor, 17 years older
- Liu Bang (Emperor Gaozu of Han) — founder of the Han dynasty, 31 years younger
- Empress Lü (Lü Zhi) — Han empress and regent, 46 years younger
- Modu Chanyu — chanyu, founder of the Xiongnu empire, 53 years younger
The world in their lifetime
- c. 285 BC Library of Alexandria — aged 2, Africa
- c. 261 BC Kalinga War — aged 26, Asia
- 221 BC Qin Shi Huang unifies China — aged 66, Asia
- 218 BC Hannibal crosses the Alps — aged 69, Europe
- 216 BC Battle of Cannae — aged 71, Europe
- c. 214 BC Great Wall of China — aged 73, Asia