03-31-2025, 07:32 AM
What He Found
They say that Archimedes leaped up shouting from his copper bath
to celebrate discovering that weight and volume meet in math
“Eureka!” cried he, king’s crown isn’t fully made of solid gold
there’s silver in there, contradicting what the jeweler said and told!
The final Syracusan joke, which modern science doesn’t teach
is that a gold and silver alloy, at that time, was quite a peach:
“Electrum,” it was called, and, coined, was valued far superior
to gold alone, soft bendy stuff, of quality inferior.
[Form: Patter song]
They say that Archimedes leaped up shouting from his copper bath
to celebrate discovering that weight and volume meet in math
“Eureka!” cried he, king’s crown isn’t fully made of solid gold
there’s silver in there, contradicting what the jeweler said and told!
The final Syracusan joke, which modern science doesn’t teach
is that a gold and silver alloy, at that time, was quite a peach:
“Electrum,” it was called, and, coined, was valued far superior
to gold alone, soft bendy stuff, of quality inferior.
[Form: Patter song]
Non-practicing atheist