Eureka! Archimedes Discovers His Principle
250 BC published
The story is that he should Eureka and ran naked thru the streets of the city after solving a problem given him by King Hiero II of Syracuse.
The king wanted to know the volume of a crown in order to determine if he had been cheated by the goldsmith.
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