Archimedes
286 BC–211 BC
Greek mathematician and physicist (c. 287 – c. 212 BC)
astronomer · engineer · physicist
Born in Syracuse
Contemporaries
People who walked the earth at the same time as Archimedes:
- Qin Shi Huang (258 BC–209 BC)
- Ashoka (303 BC–231 BC)
- Epicurus (341 BC–269 BC)
- Hannibal (246 BC–182 BC)
- Eratosthenes (275 BC–193 BC)
- Cato the Elder (233 BC–148 BC)
- Plautus (249 BC–183 BC)
- Zeno of Citium (333 BC–262 BC)