Where did the term yureka stem from? Why did one say that if gold was found?

Answer 1

it's actually spelled "eureka" and it literally translates to "i found it"

Answer 2

Archimedes was given the task of finding out if a jeweler had used all the gold the king gave to make a crown or if he kept any of it for himself. He arrived at an ingenious solution while taking a bath..or so the legend says.... He noticed that when he got in the tub, water splashed out. He collected this water and when he weighed it, it weighed as much as he did. He had discovered the priciples behind displacement and bouyancy. Legend says he was so elated, he ran out into the streets naked yelling "eureka" ( I have found it - in greek). The story has different endings. Some say when the crown was weighed against the amount of gold the king had given the jeweler, the crown was lighter and the man was executed and other tales end with the crown and the gold weighing alike. Archimedes was one very sharp dude having invented a water transfer device still used to this day. Eventually when people struck gold, the would yell out Eureka.... they had found it.....

Answer 3

A king ordered a gold crown and gave the goldsmith the exact amount of metal to make it. When the King received it, the crown had the correct weight but the monarch suspected that some silver had been used instead of the gold. Since he could not prove it, he brought the problem to Archimedes. One day while considering the question, Archie entered his bathtub and recognized that the amount of water that overflowed the tub was proportional the amount of his body that was submerged. This observation is now known as Archimedes' Principle and gave him the means to solve the problem. He was so excited that he ran naked through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it!)

Answer 4

Eureka ('Eureka!', or 'Heureka'; Greek εὕρηκα/ηὕρηκα; IPA /'evrika/ (modern Greek) or /'eure:ka/ (ancient Greek)) is a famous exclamation attributed to Archimedes. He reportedly uttered the word when he suddenly understood that the volume of an irregular object could be calculated by finding the volume of water displaced when the object was submerged in water, subsequently leaping out of his bathtub and running through the streets of Syracuse naked. "Heureka" is the 1st person singular perfect indicative active of the Greek verb heuriskein, (Greek εὑρίσκειν) meaning "to find"; it means "I have found it!", or more accurately, "I am in a state of having found it". As a result, "Eureka!" has become an interjection which is used to celebrate a discovery (whether a major scientific truth or something as minor as the finding of a lost item). A Eureka step is the step in a proof that cracks the problem and paves the way to the solution.

Answer 5

eureka, in greek evrika means i have found it. its the ancient grammar type of the verb vrisko that means find. even though in modern greek we use the form vrika and not the ancient evrika, whenever we find something importand we say evrika..maybe to honour archimedes who first said it!
there is a story behind the word that made it that famous:
Archimedes, Mathematician / Engineer

Born: ca. 287 B.C.
Birthplace: Syracuse, Sicily
Died: ca. 212 B.C.
Best Known As: Ancient Greek mathematician who said "Eureka!"

He proved that an object plunged into liquid becomes lighter by an amount equal to the weight of liquid it displaces; popular tradition has it that Archimedes made the discovery when he stepped into the bathtub, then celebrated by running through the streets shouting "Eureka!" ("I have found it!").

Answer 6

If you are referring to Eureka: Here is the definition.

Eureka
n 1: a copper-nickel alloy with high electrical resistance and a
low temperature coefficient; used as resistance wire
[syn: constantan, Eureka]
2: a town in northwest California on an arm of the Pacific
Ocean [syn: Eureka]


Eureka \Eu*re"ka\ [Gr. ? I have found, perfect indicative of ?
to find.]
The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have
cried out ``Eureka! eureka!'' (I have found it! I have found
it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how
much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence,
an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

Answer 7

...and gained fame because Archimedes was getting into a tub of water theat was completely full -- but his body displaced water causing it to splash out. He was so excited at discovering this displacement he is said to have run naked through the streets yelling Eureka, Eureka (I have found it!).

What he found is why ships float rather than sink.

Answer 8

Everyone who speaks English speaks Greek too without knowing it and vice versa. Eureka is a sample of Greek originating word used in English.

So you can say:

it's all greek to me: an oxymoron

Answer 9

I beileve it was most connected with Socrates who was given the task of finding out if the emperor's new crown was pure gold without destroying it. As he settled into a bath he noticed the water rising and figured out the idea of displacement

Answer 10

you mean eureka....
i don't know where it has come from...
something i am sure you can find out from history.
like the eureka stockade
or even the centre in Ballarat (VIC - Australia).... in the suburb Eureka... funnily enough!

Answer 11

Eureka is Greek and means "I have found it."