There isn't a conflict in a stsndard narrative sense. Archimedes and the Door of Science is a book written for primary school students on the life and discoveries of the great Greek mathematician and scientist Archimedes of Syracuse. The author encourages home educators to use the book and suggests that it can be used as part of a history, science or mathematics curriculum. It contains various examples of how to construct an experiment to illustrate one of Archimedes's discoveries and contains helpful illustrates for the student reader.