”Harrison Ford’sIndy says, “Archimedes sculpted the dial.” (If you feel like reading up on the Greek inventor and astronomer Archimedes, you can read his Wikipedia page — although there’s no mention of a dial of destiny on there at ...
The tradition of making such mechanisms could be much older. Cicero wrote of a bronze device made by Archimedes in the third century B.C. AndJames Evans, a historian of astronomy at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Washington, thinks that the eclipse cycle represented is Babylonian in...
It is based on Archimedes’ principle: when an object is submerged in water, the difference between the mass of the object in the air and its mass in water is the object’s volume. Body density = Mass of air /(Mass of air – Mass of water) Image Credit: Texas A Underwater ...