The king of Sparta decided that he needed a new gold crown, which he could make from some of the booty he had gotten from his victories. The king gave his most reputable goldsmith a small brick of gold that measured 3 x 6 x 8 cm and weighed 2,765 gms, and ordered him to turn it into a new crown. Several weeks later, the goldsmith delivered the crown to the king, who weighed it and found it to be exactly 2,765 gms. The king was delighted, until he had a dream that the goldsmith had taken some of the gold and diluted it with some base metal to make up the difference in weight, and kept the unused gold for himself.
The goldsmith had thought of this, but decided to risk his life on the fact that no one could calculate the volume of the crown, and that the king would not melt his crown back into a measurable block so that its density could be calculated. The goldsmith was right: the king didn't want to melt down the crown. Nevertheless, the king wanted assurance that he was not dooped, and gave public notice of a prize to anyone who could determine the volume of his crown.
As legend has it, Archimedes was in the baths relaxing and watching the goings-on around him. He noticed that whenever someone got into a tub the water level rose. Suddenly an idea came to him: the concept of the conservation of matter. Total volume = volume A + volume B. He jumped up and ran naked down the street towards the palace shouting "Eureka! Eureka!", which means "I have found it" in ancient Greek. Now the king was not shocked to see this naked man knocking at his palace door because most men in those Spartan days wore little or nothing in that hot and humid climate. So the king invited Archimedes in, and soon the two were bent over a table upon which was a bucket, which was absolutely full to the brim, inside of another empty bucket. As the men slowly lowered the crown into the inner bucket, a little water spilled out into the outer bucket.
Finally, the whole crown was submerged, and the inner bucket was carefully lifted out so that no splashing occurred. The water in the inner bucket was found to weigh 169 grams. Then Archimedes, who up to then was a nobody-geek in this city full of athletic warriors, explained to the king that the original block of gold was 144 cubic centimeters in size, which would displace 144 grams of water. Thus the new crown has more volume than the original gold brick, but weighs just the same. The goldsmith must have sliced off a piece of the gold brick and kept it for himself, then added something else to the remaining gold being careful to add enough of the base metal to make up the required original weight.
During the ensuing celebrations at which the goldsmith received the brunt of Spartan military prowess, Archimedes was bestowed the honored title of Physicist Royale, and received the promised reward. (Alas, a short while later, rival city-state Athens defeated Sparta. An Athenian soldier broke down Archimedes' office door and told him to put his hands up. But as Archimedes did so he pointed at his desk and told the solder: "Don't disturb my circles." For that indignation, the soldier thrust a spear through Archimedes. (No, Archimedes' screw is something else!)
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Querquobad, the Silver Sage - The ruler of the silver ship city of Amarganth .
The 5 point crown has nothing to do with the Folk Nation. Maybe you should do a little research so you are better informed. The 5 point crown is used by latin kings (people) The 5point star as well (people) The Six point star or pitchforks pointing north is for (Folks) know your gang symbols before you look ridiculous.
Sounds like a Latin Kings tattoo, so yea. Even if it isn't, the association will be there, and it'd be a shame to get capped over a misunderstanding.
Archimedes
The story of the Archimedes crown is likely a legend as there is no concrete historical evidence to support its veracity. It is often recounted as a popular anecdote to highlight Archimedes' intelligence and ingenuity.
The Archimedes story relates that Archimedes had been trying to determine if the King's crown was pure gold, without having to melt it down (destroying it) to see. Archimedes sat down in the tub and noted that the water rose in the tub, and that he realized that the volume of water displaced was equal to the volume of Archimedes himself. This gave him an insight into how to determine the volume of the crown; by submerging the crown in water and measuring how far the water rose, this would give him the volume of the crown. He could then weigh the crown and calculate the density of the crown, and determine that the crown was not pure gold.
Yes Archimedes crown was pure gold. how they know this is that they weighed the dentisity of the crown.
You may be referring to the story of how Archimedes was able to determine if a crown had been made of pure gold (or less-than-pure gold) by measuring how much water the crown and an equal weight of pure gold displaced.
Surprisingly it was King Hiero! That is why the king had called Archimedes first about his problem with his crown.
The hydrostatic balance was an accurate balance that could weigh objects both in water and in the air. Galileo got the idea from the "Eureka" story about Archimedes and the King of Syracuse's crown in which Archimedes had to prove if the king's crown was made of real gold or not. Galileo used some of Archimedes ideas and built his own invention which he called the hydrostatic balance.
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Archimedes was told by the king to find out if his crown was made of pure gold, calculating the density of the crown, Archimedes found it to be a mix of gold and silver.
During Archimedes' time in Syracuse, King Hieron, the king of Syracuse and a close friend of Archimedes, commissioned the construction of a beautiful golden crown. When the goldsmith returned the crown, the king suspected him of stealing some of the gold and replacing it in the crown with silver. The king wanted to make sure that he got all of his gold back, so he asked Archimedes to discover the true contents of the crown.
The name of the scientist who found the fake gold crown was Archimedes.
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Hiero II, the King of Syracuse, wanted Archimedes to determine if gold had been withheld from a crown by the goldsmith commissioned to make it. Without damaging the crown, Archimedes used water displacement to prove that the gold was not all there.