Engineering: Archimedes of Syracuse In the 3rd century BCE, the Sicilian polymath Archimedes significantly advanced human understanding of mathematics, geometry and astronomy.
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Doing Business in Interstellar Space Imagine that interstellar trade is possible at speeds close to...