Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be immersed in it to such an extent that the weight of the solid will be equal to the weight of the fluid displaced.
Mathematics, physics, engineering
Another phrasing of Archimedes' Principle from 'On Floating Bodies'.
c. 250 BCE
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