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1 May 2025

• diffhist Archimedes 20:44 −26 Guillermind81 talk contribs (That picture has nothing to do with On Floating Bodies I-II. It illustrates what Archimedes allegedly might have done on the wreath incident based on Vitruvius' report. You won't find that anywhere on On Floating Bodies, and so placing it next to it is misleading. I've shortened the caption, though, in case that helps.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 20:13 −19 Ianmacm talk contribs (→Golden wreath: removed this footnote, it is silly and pointy)
• diffhist Archimedes 19:53 0 Psychastes talk contribs (this image could go next to the story about the wreath contextually, but on my monitor that's still being taken up by the infobox so it pushes everything down. i believe it works just as well next to the content on floating bodies so i'm moving it there)
• diffhist Archimedes 19:46 +3 Psychastes talk contribs (→Large numbers: ce)
• diffhist Archimedes 19:45 −6 Psychastes talk contribs (→Legacy: reword classical antiquity section a bit per discussion on talk. we still need sources but hopefully it's more clear now what claims are intended that are in need of verification)
• diffhist Archimedes 19:07 +1,607 Psychastes talk contribs (update mathematics section - combining the "infinite series" and "archimedean property" sections into the "method of exhaustion" section (since these are all applications of the method), and add a bit of background on the topic. Also add an entirely new section on the mechanical method, which contrasts with the method of exhaustion, and another on the archimedean solids. also update some cn tags with netz) Tag: harv or sfn error
• diffhist m Cavalieri's principle 13:34 0 Hagman talk contribs (→Generalisation to measures: typo)

30 April 2025

• diffhist Möbius strip 23:19 −25 JayBeeEll talk contribs (Undid revision 1288171719 by Citation bot (talk) fake issue numbers; bot call by incompentent editor) Tag: Undo
• diffhist Archimedes 22:11 −1 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Repositioned more pictures.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 19:50 +788 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Undid revision 1288137711 by Psychastes (talk) Take to the talk page. Collectively, this is a major redesign and we should let other people weigh in.) Tag: Undo
• diffhist Archimedes 18:07 −788 Psychastes talk contribs (move mathematics to "writings" section, under corresponding/appropriate headings for different works. the information as written accurately reflects the *content* of these works, but the implication that these are at all *original* to archimedes is not correct, much of it (method of exhaustion, infinite series) is even in Euclid's elements) Tag: Reverted
• diffhist Archimedes 17:52 0 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Rearranged for better flow. The golden wreath story is the most familiar to people so it makes sense to start there.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 17:42 −32 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Ibid. Also, reworked the section on the Syracusia to better reflect the facts as found in Athenaeus.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Archimedes 17:28 0 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Ibid.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 17:28 +4 Guillermind81 talk contribs (I had to reposition the pictures again.) Tag: 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 17:07 −30 Psychastes talk contribs (Restored revision 1288109893 by Guillermind81 (talk): These are (likely) apocryphal biographical accounts of Archimedes life - they shouldn't be in a "discoveries and inventions" section because they're just fictional accounts of his life) Tags: Twinkle Undo
• diffhist Archimedes 15:07 −1 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Repositioned pictures to match content.) Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 14:36 0 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Rearranged for better flow.) Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 14:23 0 Guillermind81 talk contribs Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 14:21 +31 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Ibid.) Tags: Reverted 2017 wikitext editor
• diffhist Archimedes 14:18 0 Guillermind81 talk contribs (Rearranged intro for better flow.) Tag: Visual edit
• diffhist Archimedes 06:12 −7,492 Psychastes talk contribs (going through Dijksterhuis page by page and verifying/debunking claims made in the article by non-scholarly sources; sadly much of what has been presented uncritically or as separate accounts by self-published/popular web sources are in fact disguised retellings of the same stories, which are moreover justifiably doubted by professional historians)
• diffhist m Parallelogram 00:50 −41 Nwbeeson talk contribs (→Special cases: simplified)

29 April 2025

• diffhist Archimedes 23:51 −35 Psychastes talk contribs (from see also, diocles is already linked in the article, and move pseudo-archimedes to the "apocryphal works" section)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:47 −20 Psychastes talk contribs (→Lost works: no reason for this to be a footnote, it's a book)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:47 −253 Psychastes talk contribs (→Lost works: remove duplicate of the same text)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:44 −176 Psychastes talk contribs (→Apocryphal works: this is just a link to someone hosting a (possibly still copyrighted?) translation of the book of lemmas, which verifies none of the claims made in the article)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:35 −10 Psychastes talk contribs (remove straggler citation out of the lead)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:34 −740 Psychastes talk contribs (→Further reading: remove works that are cited in the article, and so should not be listed under "further reading")
• diffhist Archimedes 23:03 +6 Psychastes talk contribs (→Classical antiquity: another dubious claim to be tagged)
• diffhist Archimedes 23:01 +5 Psychastes talk contribs (→Heat ray: close ref tag)
• diffhist Archimedes 22:51 −1 Psychastes talk contribs (ce)
• diffhist Archimedes 22:50 −5,701 Psychastes talk contribs (citation cleanup; moving usable prose out of ref tags, tagging primary sources unsupported by a secondary, tagging all heath and self-published website sources with "better source needed" (and removing them when there is a better source cited), adding citation needed to wholly unverified claims and potential WP:OR)
• diffhist Archimedes 20:53 −1 Psychastes talk contribs (→Classical antiquity: ce)
• diffhist Archimedes 20:52 −442 Psychastes talk contribs (the mischaracterization by Plutarch says more about plutarch than archimedes, which doesn't mean that it doesn't belong on the article, but it should probably be in the legacy section (how Archimedes was seen in antiquity) rather than the positing potentially true facts about Archimedes. and the information in the long ref quotes belongs there too. also reorganize legacy section in chronological order now that there's more meat to it)
• diffhist m Archimedes 19:00 0 Davemck talk contribs (→Writings: Clean up duplicate template arguments using findargdups)
• diffhist Archimedes 18:26 +23 Psychastes talk contribs (add some of the middle ages information cited in the legacy to the lead, as it stood before it sounded like they were sitting on a forgotten bookshelf waiting to be discovered until the 15th century (which was true of some works, but not Archimedes))
• diffhist Archimedes 18:16 +467 Psychastes talk contribs (move the transmission of archimedes work from the writings to the legacy section, add in a copy of information at the end of the lead that's not in the body and move the citations from the lead to there.)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:59 −64 Psychastes talk contribs (reorder the information in the planetarium paragraph in "Astronomical instruments" to introduce the relevance of the section sooner)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:47 +337 Psychastes talk contribs (move accounts of Archimedes' death and gravestone to the "death" section rather than the "career" section, move accounts of his life that aren't early to the "career" section from early life, add some background with a citation from Heraclides Lembus on the (alleged) contemporary biography)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:32 +11 Psychastes talk contribs (add the cite for the planetarium)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:28 −1,105 Psychastes talk contribs (im skeptical that long extended quotes in latin are particularly helpful to readers of english wikipedia, and the value of the blockquotes seems dubious)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:21 +5 Psychastes talk contribs (→Law of the lever: footnote)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:17 −80 Psychastes talk contribs (→Archimedes Palimpsest: the Archimedes palimpsest is not the "foremost" document containing Archimedes' work, but rather one of three separate Byzantine manuscript traditions of Archimedes' work, and the one most recently discovered by a margin of several centuries, at that. also splitting the paragraphs into different topics: "discovery and contents" and "history")
• diffhist Archimedes 17:07 −724 Psychastes talk contribs (Archimedes did not invent neusis constructions, which were widely used in the 4th century BC, and the cited source (Knorr) doesn't support the claim that he was "known for" them. moreover, while Archimedes' use of neusis *could* be discussed in this article, it isn't currently, so it should not be included in the infobox)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:01 −1 Psychastes talk contribs (→Legacy: ce)
• diffhist Archimedes 17:00 −2,828 Psychastes talk contribs (remove WP:OVERKILL citations, the claim that Archimedes is the greatest mathematician of antiquity is not particularly controversial so there's really no need to have a dozen or more sources supporting the claim, many of which are news articles or popsci and wouldn't stand on their own if the claim *were* controversial. also some minor formatting changes)
• diffhist Archimedes 16:48 −1,055 Psychastes talk contribs (rework the blockquotes in the legacy section into prose and pare down the chest-beating and hagiography a bit, at some point it starts to detract more from Archimedes' reputation than bolster it! also moving the long list of citations from the lead to there (since citations don't need to be in the lead))
• diffhist Archimedes 16:28 −138 Psychastes talk contribs (rewrite the anecdote about the crown to make the purpose (determining if the smith cheated the king out of gold) and the physics more clear, pare down some extraneous details and try to make it more clear it's apocryphal)
• diffhist Archimedes 15:54 −35 Psychastes talk contribs (→Legacy: linking to a disambiguation page here seems off - i think i understand what was trying to be communicated here (most things on that page will be named after archimedes' famous proclamation), but it looks "broken" and we should probably discuss it more in the body of the article instead)