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Archimedes
c. 287 – c. 212 BC · Mathematics
Archimedes of Syracuse was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer and inventor, regarded as one of the leading scientists of classical antiquity. Among his many contributions he laid the foundations of hydrostatics and stated the law of buoyancy now known as Archimedes' principle: any object wholly or partially immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force equal to the weight of the fluid it displaces. He set this out in his work On Floating Bodies. Tradition holds that he grasped the idea while taking a bath, leaping out with the cry of Eureka. He also proved the law of the lever, found the relationship between the volume of a sphere and its enclosing cylinder, and designed the screw pump that still bears his name. His principle powers the buoyancy calculator in this section.
Source: Wikipedia — Archimedes