Archimedes was possibly the world's greatest scientist — at least the greatest in the classical age. He was a physicist, mathematician, astronomer, inventor and engineer. Many of his inventions, ...

Archimedes of Syracuse was one of the greatest mathematicians in history. He was also a great inventor and scientist. Most of what we know about Archimedes today comes from his writings and those of ...

Connect the dots....Eureka! It's Archimedes sitting in the bath. Allen, Pamela. New York: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, 1980. Introduces buoyancy by telling a story about Archimedes taking a bath with ...

In New York City’s Bronx Zoo, Superintendent Quentin Schubert and Executive Secretary John Tee-Van pondered the problem of how to weigh Pete, a 43-year-old hippopotamus. Scales were obviously out of ...

LAKEWOOD, Ohio -- Simply put, Archimedes’ Principle states that if the weight of the water displaced is less than the weight of an object, the object will sink. Otherwise, the object will float.

Pick a point in time — any random point in the world's history — and you'll likely be able to find some sign of genius. Brilliant minds have speckled generations past, providing their people with ...

A new limited-time exhibit at the Cranbrook Institute of Science invites visitors of all ages to exclaim 'Eureka!' as they learn new ideas in math, science, and history. “The Science of Archimedes” ― ...

In a dimly lit monastic scriptorium in13th-century Constantinople, a group of scribes unknowingly scrubbed away what could have been one of humanity’s most significant scientific manuscripts.