Archimedes
The Complete History of Science
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The Legacy of Aristotle and Archimedes
Aristotle tended to avoid heavy mathematical descriptions of the world. By contrast, Archimedes' ideas are almost exclusively constructed mathematically and he avoids philosophical speculation entirely. The two men also differ greatly in the scope of their work. When Newton derived his laws of motion and gravity, it was to Archimedes, not Aristotle that he looked at.
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