Questioning Scientific Titans

[CapnAwesome]

Well you got the Eureka story wrong anyway. Although the story is likely not historically accurate, it's origins are about him discovering the use of water displacement in order to measure volume, specifically to discover whether or not a gold crown was entirely gold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eureka_(word)

So I probably wouldn't be big on lecturing your girlfriend if I were you. Also it's very easy to criticize ancient scientists. Archimedes was discovering principles that you can mostly learn in high school now. Anybody with a high school education knows more then he did about the world. I'm not intimately familiar with him, but I'm sure he believed in plenty of quackery like most scientists back then did.