‘Eureka!’ – Archimedes (287–212 BCE)
‘Eureka!’
– Archimedes (287–212 BCE)
Archimedes in his bath, a woodcut by Peter Flötner (1490–1546) from the first German translation of Vitruvius (Vitruvius Teutsch), published by Johannes Petreius in Nuremberg in 1548. Hiero’s crown is on the right in the foreground.
