How taking a bath led to Archimedes' principle - Mark Salata
View full lesson here: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/mark-salata-how-taking-a-bath-led-to-archimedes-principle Stories of discovery and invention often begin with a problem that needs solving....
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Some of the best opportunities to learn are the moments in which we are perplexed. Those moments in which you begin to wonder and question. These moments have happened throughout history. and have led to some truly amazing discoveries. Take this story, for example. There once was a fellow named Archimedes. He was born in 287 B.C. in the city of Syracuse in Sicily. He was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. One day, Archimedes was summoned by the king of Sicily to investigate if he had been cheated by a goldsmith. The king said he had given a goldsmith the exact amount of gold needed to make a crown. However, when the crown was ready, the king suspected that the goldsmith cheated and slipped some silver into the crown, ...
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Some of the best opportunities to learn are the moments in which we are perplexed. Those moments in which you begin to wonder and question. These moments have happened throughout history. and have led to some truly amazing discoveries. Take this story, for example. There once was a fellow named Archimedes. He was born in 287 B.C. in the city of Syracuse in Sicily. He was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. One day, Archimedes was summoned by the king of Sicily to investigate if he had been cheated by a goldsmith. The king said he had given a goldsmith the exact amount of gold needed to make a crown. However, when the crown was ready, the king suspected that the goldsmith cheated and slipped some silver into the crown, ...
