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 was a creative solution to a problem that many people at the time thought didn’t have a solution. And it kept being the solution for these kinds of problems for around two-thousand years.

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