EUREKA!!?? ARCHIMEDES

have you heard a word of EUREKA?

what a beautiful word is it right? sound so cute

try to say E.U.R.E.K.A in a loud voice

what do you feel by say it out loud?

hahah it kinda weird right to say it loud as you really do not know what its meaning. 

Please do not scare of this word, it is not a part of vulgar words or cursing words....

but what is really the meaning of EUREKA ?

is it a name of a girl or a beautiful cute princess like this?

no no no no Eureka is not a name of a girl or princess,

but it is all right if you plan to name your newborn daughter as Eureka (cute right?)

let me tell you the real meaning of EUREKA....

are you curious to know the meaning is?

please stay still with me as I want to share some information about EUREKA

Eureka is the word from ancient Greek mean:

This exclamation is most famously attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes.  


 

Let's the story begin.......

The local tyrant contracts the ancient Greek polymath Archimedes to detect fraud in the manufacture of a golden crown. Said tyrant, name of Hiero, suspects his goldsmith of leaving out some measure of gold and replacing it with silver in a wreath dedicated to the gods.

Archimedes accepts the challenge and, during a subsequent trip to the public baths. Archimedes happened to go to the bath, and on getting into a tub and observed and realizes that the more his body sinks into the water, the more water is displaced making the displaced water an exact measure of his volume. Because gold weighs more than silver, he reasons that a crown mixed with silver would have to be bulkier to reach the same weight as one composed only of gold; therefore it would displace more water than its pure gold counterpart.

 

Archimedes may have used his principle of buoyancy to determine whether the golden crown was less dense than solid gold.

As this pointed out the way to explain the case in question, he jumped out of the tub and rushed home naked, crying with a loud voice that he had found what he was seeking for he as he ran he shouted repeatedly in Greek, "Eureka, eureka." meaning "I have found (it), I have found (it)." 

This relation is known as Archimedes' principle. He then realized that the volume of irregular objects could be measured with precision, a previously intractable problem. He is said to have been so eager to share his discovery that he leapt out of his bathtub and ran through the streets of Syracuse naked.

 

That is where this word come from.  

"Eureka" is used to express triumph of a discovery.

Many people also may use the word in the sentence "it was a Eureka moment" 

meaning that they all of a sudden had a great idea.

Let us know the founder of the word 'Eureka'

ARCHIMEDES

Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity.

Archimedes was born c. 287 BC in the seaport city of Syracuse, Sicily, at that time a self-governing colony in Magna Graecia. The date of birth is based on a statement by the Byzantine Greek historian John Tzetzes that Archimedes lived for 75 years.

Plutarch wrote in his Parallel Lives that Archimedes was related to King Hiero II, the ruler of Syracuse. A biography of Archimedes was written by his friend Heracleides but this work has been lost, leaving the details of his life obscure. It is unknown, for instance, whether he ever married or had children.

Archimedes died c. 212 BC during the Second Punic War, when Roman forces under General Marcus Claudius Marcellus captured the city of Syracuse after a two-year-long siege. According to the popular account given by Plutarch, Archimedes was contemplating a mathematical diagram when the city was captured. A Roman soldier commanded him to come and meet General Marcellus but he declined, saying that he had to finish working on the problem. The soldier was enraged by this, and killed Archimedes with his sword. Plutarch also gives a lesser-known account of the death of Archimedes which suggests that he may have been killed while attempting to surrender to a Roman soldier. According to this story, Archimedes was carrying mathematical instruments, and was killed because the soldier thought that they were valuable items. General Marcellus was reportedly angered by the death of Archimedes, as he considered him a valuable scientific asset and had ordered that he not be harmed.

thanks a lot to late Archimedes for what he had found 

 really make our life more easier

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