Labels:bulletin board | hakham | reckoner | sky OCR: THERE IS A STORY that the King of Syracuse, town on the island of Sicily suspected goldsmith of Fmaking crown for him out mixture of gold and silver rather than pure gold. The Greek mathematician Archimedes (287 BC BC) was asked to find out whether there was any silver the crown, without damaging 1t At first Archimedes was stuck for a solution. Then, while visiting 5 public bath house he noticed that the water level rose as he got into the bath. He ran down the street naked shouting Eureka, eureka! ye got 1f I've got it!) and rushed home to develop his theory, today known as Archimedes principle. He had realized that his body seemed lighter as he sat in the bath, and that his apparent weight loss was equal to the weight of water he displaced. He had also realized that the volume of water d ...
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