How did Archimedes Principle Come About?
Archimedes Lived from 287-212 B.C. and was a Greek mathematician, physicist, and inventor. He is famous for his work in geometry, physics, mechanics, and hydrostatics. He lived most of his life in Syracuse (an ancient Greek city), where he was very good friends the royal family. Tradition has made the following story famous. Legend holds he was asked by the ruler at that time, to determine whether a crown was pure gold or was alloyed with silver. Archimedes was confused as to how to prove this, until one day, observing the overflow of water in his bath, he suddenly realized that since gold is more dense than silver, a given weight of gold represents a smaller volume than an equal weight of silver and that a given weight of gold would therefore displace less water than an equal weight of silver. Delighted at his discovery, he ran home without his clothes, shouting “Eureka, which means “I have found it. He found that the King’s crown displaced more water than an equal weight of gold, thu
