By 
Mark Salata
 | 
TED-Ed Original

How taking a bath led to Archimedes' Principle

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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