Describle how archimedes reacted to the reality of wartime in "archimedes and the siege of syracuse"

By resisting the urge to panic and continuing. 
Archimedes was on the finance of the king,and amid the attack changed to the part of military designer. 
He conceived a technique for finding Roman mines endeavoring to burrow under the city walls,and composed and assembled Archimedes' Claw - a machine that snared Roman ships out of the water and flipped them over. 
The mirrors being utilized to set ships ablaze is false - the contemporary records of the attack don't say this by any stretch of the imagination - odd on the off chance that it were true,as they say the Claw and various other littler machines outlined and utilized by Archimedes amid the siege.The first known composed record is by a Medieval writer,so on adjust doubtlessly the tale about utilizing mirrors to set Roman boats land is a spurious creation.

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