10419155 | This is a Rights Managed image.Ĭredit © Science Museum Library / Science & Society Picture Library - All rights reserved. Archimedes shouted Eureka because he was excited to come to the solution of his kings order to build up a big ship as a gift for the Egypts king Ptolemy. Vignette from the title page of 'Notizie istoriche e critiche intorno alla vita, alle invenzioni, ed agli scritti di Archimede siracusano' (Historical and critical information about the life, inventions and writings of Archimedes of Syracuse) by Count Giammaria Mazzuchelli (1707-1765), published in Brescia, Italy in 1737. This is now called 'Archimedes' Principle' or the 'Principle of Buoyancy'. Archimedes Automatic visual analysis of jigs and toolings Motion planning: plan fast and smooth transfer motions in real time EurekaTouch. After further experiments he concluded that the buoyant force on an object is equivalent to the weight of water displaced by that object. Supposedly, the king asked Archimedes to figure out a way to determine if a statuette he had received was solid gold.
He had just stepped into his bath and, noticing that the water overflowed, he realised that the volume of water that overflowed was equal to the portion of his body that had been immersed.
The naked Archimedes (c 287-212 BC) running through the streets of Syracuse shouting 'Eureka!', ('I have found it'). Archimedes crying 'Eureka!', 3rd century BC, (1737).
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