Archimedes cries 'Eureka!'
c. 250 BCE (traditional) · Event
Asked whether King Hiero's crown is pure gold, Archimedes realises in his bath that displaced water can measure its volume — and runs naked through Syracuse, by Vitruvius' story.
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