Archimedes: mathematical principles of floating bodies

What changed

Buoyancy and floating equilibrium became subjects of systematic mathematical demonstration.

Scientific scope

The surviving treatise with approximate ancient date; the bathtub anecdote and modern fluid mechanics are excluded.

Evidence

The linked sources identify this contribution and its scope. WRS has not independently reconstructed the scientific claims. The date is approximate and the record concerns the surviving treatise, not the later bathtub anecdote or modern fluid mechanics.

Contributors

• Archimedes · SCIENCE: Named source author of the scoped work; individual effort shares are not measured.

• Perseus catalogue: Archimedes, On Floating Bodies

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