"Mathematics reveals its secrets only to those who approach it with pure love, for its own beauty."
"Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced. On floating bodies I, prop 5."
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Source: Archimedes, Sir Thomas Little Heath (2002). “The Works of Archimedes”, p.257, Courier Corporation
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