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Portrait of a scholar (Archimedes?). Domenico Fetti, 1620. Early life and education Archimedes was born into a family connected to the ruling elite of Syracuse. In his work ‘The Sand-Reckoner’, Archimedes gives his father’s name as Phidias, an astronomer about whom nothing else is known, it is assumed this is what likely sparked Archimedes’ early […]
