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Trisecting an angleArchimedes method
  • By Jessica Scott
  • 11/29/99

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Archimedes of Syracuse
  • Born in Syracuse, Sicily in 287 B.C.
  • Son of Phidias, an astronomer
  • Invented many war machines
  • Killed in 212 B.C. in the Second Punic War by a a
    Roman soldier

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Three famous construction problems
  • Can these problems be solved with only the tools
    of a straightedge and compass?
  • Double a cube
  • Square a circle
  • Trisect an angle
  • These questions lasted until the early 19th
    century when the tasks were shown impossible
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