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that he was able to move any large weight, at which point Hiero challenged him to move a ship. These accounts contain many fantastic details that are historically implausible, and the authors of these stories provide conflicting ideas about how this task was accomplished: Plutarch states that Archimedes constructed a block-and-tackle pulley system, while Hero of Alexandria attributed the same boast to Archimedes' invention of

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