The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving writings by Archimedes, a Greek thinker who is regarded as the greatest mathematician of antiquity. The story of the 174-page ...

FRAN:So Archimedes was working on a problem that had been set by the king because the king didn't know whether his crown was made of pure gold or not. DOM:So it was at that moment in the bath that ...

Archimedes then experimented with pieces of silver and gold, comparing the amount of water displaced by them with the amount which overflowed when the crown was submerged in water. As well as ...

Around 250BC, Archimedes, the pre-eminent mathematician of antiquity, was asked by Heiro II, king of Syracuse, to help resolve a contentious issue. The king had commissioned a crown of pure gold.