<P> The exclamation ' Eureka ! ' is attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes . He reportedly proclaimed `` Eureka ! Eureka ! '' after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose , whereupon he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged . ( This relation is not what is known as Archimedes ' principle -- that deals with the upthrust experienced by a body immersed in a fluid . ) 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 naked through the streets of Syracuse . </P>
<P> The exclamation ' Eureka ! ' is attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes . He reportedly proclaimed `` Eureka ! Eureka ! '' after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose , whereupon he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged . ( This relation is not what is known as Archimedes ' principle -- that deals with the upthrust experienced by a body immersed in a fluid . ) 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 naked through the streets of Syracuse . </P>
who shouted eureka and jumped out of the bath
who shouted eureka and jumped out of the bath
Archimedes
Archimedes