212 BC - Deaths

Deaths

  • Archimedes of Syracuse, Greek mathematician and scientist, who has calculated formulae for the areas and volumes of spheres, cylinders, parabolas and other plane and solid figures. He has also founded the science of hydrostatics, including the principle of the upthrust on a floating body which has led to his cry, "Eureka". Thirdly, he has invented siege-engines for use against the Romans and the Archimedean screw to raise water (b. c. 287 BC)
  • Xerxes of Armenia (assassinated by his wife Antiochia)
  • Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, Roman consul from 215 to 213 BC

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