What specific works did Archimedes create?

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Archimedes wrote nine treatises that survive. In On the Sphere and Cylinder, he showed that the surface area of a sphere with radius r is 4πr2 and that the volume of a sphere inscribed within a cylinder is two-thirds that of the cylinder. (Archimedes was so proud of the latter result that a diagram of it was engraved on his tomb.) In Measurement of the Circle, he showed that pi lies between 3 10/71 and 3 1/7. In On Floating Bodies, he wrote the first description of how objects behave when floating in water.

What accomplishments was Archimedes known for?

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Archimedes found that the volume of a sphere is two-thirds the volume of a cylinder that encloses it. He also discovered a law of buoyancy, Archimedes’ principle, that says a body in a fluid is acted on by an upward force equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. According to tradition, he invented the Archimedes screw, which uses a screw enclosed in a pipe to raise water from one level to another.