Any solid lighter than a fluid will, if placed in the fluid, be so far immersed that the weight of the fluid displaced by the immersed portion will be equal to the weight of the solid.
Mathematics, physics, engineering
From 'On Floating Bodies', articulating Archimedes' Principle.
c. 250 BCE
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