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Comments by "Aristocles Athenaioi" (@aristoclesathenaioi4939) on "What Happened When The Soviets Launched A Giant Mirror Into Space" video.
Archimedes was killed by a Roman who the commander asked to meet Archimedes. The soldier came to Archimedes while Archimedes has concentrating on solving a problem and failed to respond to the Roman soldier who killed him on the spot for impudence.
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@ yes there is. They simply wrongly described the death of Archimedes. The account of Archimedes death is attested to by many contemporaneous sources. Even if the account of his desth is apocryphal, it reinforces the character of Archimedes who I and others consider the greatest mathematician is all of recorded history.
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@BS-vx8dg It is at 1 min 03 secs which is at the end of their discussion of what Archimedes did. I will get the time stamp but let me describe where because it is easy to find. It is at the end of the segment on Archimedes when they show a cartoon figure standing on a city wall being struck by an arrow. The voice over says the Archimedes was killed during that war between Syracuse and Rome. That flat out wrong. Archimedes was killed after the war, and he was killed at his home as he was studying a geometric problem drawn in sand in front of Archimedes. I suggest you read some of the other comments. Now I will get the time stamp.
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@BS-vx8dg 1 min 03 sec
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@BS-vx8dg You are most welcome. I studied Ancient Greek Philosophy and Language in University, so I am ultra-sensitive when I hear anything about people or events in that time period. I expect that for most people it just flashed by them.
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