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Ça coule, ça flotte

When the king of Syracuse gave Archimedes the task of proving that a crown was not made only of pure gold, Archimedes discovered in his bath that 'any body immersed in a liquid undergoes, on the part of the latter, a thrust exerted from the bottom upwards and equal in intensity to the weight of the volume of liquid displaced.'