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In 1998, a two million dollar price was paid at auction for a palimpsest containing his Method of Mechanical Theorems and On Floating Bodies. He also wrote The Sphere and the Cylinder. His namesake "principle" states that "an object immersed in fluid loses weight equal to the weight of the amount of fluid it displaces." For 10 points—name this third-century BCE Greek mathematician who, upon discovering the aforementioned principle, ran naked and wet through the streets of Syracuse shouting "Eureka."
In 1998, a two million dollar price was paid at auction for a palimpsest containing his Method of Mechanical Theorems and On Floating Bodies.
{Archimedes}