Class 6. EUREKA

EUREKA Ans 1. Hiero was the king of Syracuse. He wanted the biggest crown in the world. Ans 2. He called the goldsmith to fashion a crown that would make every other king want to possess it. For this he gave ten pounds of pure gold to the goldsmith. Ans3. The king instructed the goldsmith to put every grain of gold and not to use any other metal with it . Ans 4. Archimedes was a very wise man in the king's court . Though he found the workmanship of the crown exquisite, he was suspicious of the quality of the gold.It was a brilliant yellow . It did not have the same rich colour as the lump of gold given to him by the king. Ans 5.The challange before him was to invent a method to measure the purity of the gold used to make the crown without causing the crown any damage.