In his own time, Archimedes was famous not so much for his work in mathematics as for his inventions, which were many.

They included compound pulley systems, a planetarium showing the motions of the sun, moon, and planets as viewed from the earth, and a mechanism known as the Egyptian or Archimedes Screw, for raising water, which was used for by the Egyptians to raise water from streams and canals to irrigate their fields and by the Romans to pump water out of mines and the holds of ships. He also designed and built war machines that were used in the defence of Syracuse against its enemies.

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