He ran naked through the streets yelling “Eureka.” He was the greatest thinker of ancient times. Now Archimedes is at the Huntington, with ancient wisdom and a new puzzle. “Lost and Found ...

Perhaps his best-known achievement was his "Eureka" moment, when he discovered the principle of buoyancy. Archimedes lived in Syracuse on the island of Sicily in the third century B.C. At that ...

It is said that he leapt from the bath and ran down the street naked shouting “Eureka”, meaning “I’ve found it!” The importance of the discovery was in giving rise to Archimedes ...

Archimedes is famous for supposedly shouting, “Eureka! I have found it,” upon discovering how to measure the volume of a solid while sitting in his bath. Of all the new discoveries, one of the most ...

Or, as Archimedes reputedly said when insight struck, Eureka! Today, the flash of insight is measurable using brain scans, which show a part of the right hemisphere lights up at that moment.

The great Greek mathematician Archimedes had the first Eureka! moment 2,200 years ago. According to legend, inspiration struck Archimedes as he sat in his bathtub, pondering an assignment from ...

In it Monahan takes the reader from Archimedes archetypical "Eureka!" moment to J. Robert Oppenheimer's fraught findings. His genius shone like a beacon throughout the Hellenistic world ...

One volume that historians and scientists long feared had been lost forever–the sole copy of works by Greek mathematician and inventor Archimedes–did survive. Barely. Known among scholars as ...

Archimedes is known for engineering feats, such as water pumps and catapults, and his mathematical writings. But he's also immortalized in the exclamation 'Eureka!' (I have found it!), which he ...

The buyer permitted the text to be displayed as part of an exhibition titled Eureka! The Archimedes Palimpsest at the Walters Art Museum, where it is presently being scanned and conserved.

The oldest authority for the naked-Archimedes eureka story is Vitruvius, a Roman writer, who included the tale in his introduction to his ninth book of architecture some time in the first century ...