What is the significance of Archimedes’ Principle?

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I understand that Archimedes’ Principle used the displacement of fluid to determine an object’s mass and therefore proved whether the king’s gold crown was an alloy. But why was this so significant in the long term?

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It lets you work out how to make boats out of metal, so that was pretty significant. Actually just boat design in general benefited a lot from a mathematical formula showing how/why things float.

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