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How taking a bath led to Archimedes’ Principle - Mark Salata

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Stories of discovery and invention often begin with a problem that needs solving. Summoned by the king to investigate a suspicious goldsmith, the early Greek mathematician Archimedes stumbles on the principle that would make him famous.

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Jeremiah Dickey
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Mark Salata
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Mark Salata

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