About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. … One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

1.1, "The Erasure of the Scientific Revolution", p. 6 - The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn (2004)