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2006-11-05 14:54:56 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Archimedes, Eureka is Greek for "I have found it."
Legend has it that he was given the task of verifying whether the King's Crown was really gold, or just gold plated lead. As he sat down to take a bath it occurred to him that the amount of water displaced by an object in water is the function of that items mass, and that you could figure it out by dunking the crown in water. he was so excited by his discovery that he ran naked from the bath house to the palace to tell the king.
2006-11-07 15:17:11 · answer #1 · answered by janssen411 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was Archimedes. According to the usual reliable sources, he said it when he got into his bath, and he observed that the water overflowed over the edges. This may seem obvious to us today, but for him, it proved his theory of the displacement of water, equal to the mass of the object in a body of water. "Eureka!" in Greek, means "I have found it!"
From this, to the modern age, has been the theory that enables us to build huge steel ships, that don't sink (due to their shape and design, they displace the water...)
2006-11-05 23:06:22 · answer #2 · answered by Joya 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Archimedes
2006-11-05 22:58:06 · answer #3 · answered by Nathan B 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Forty-Niners at Sutter's Mill in California. I'm not sure which prospector was the one who said it, but maybe the link below will help.
2006-11-05 23:01:14 · answer #4 · answered by No Way 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋