Friday, April 22, 2011

Question 1090: Balancing act

A pictorial representation of what famous claim? Made by whom?


Answer: Archimedes' work on levers caused him to remark: "Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth."

18 Answers:

indian said...

Archimedes lever -- to have remarked of the lever: Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth.

Aaslesh said...

Archimedes.

"Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world."

prashanth said...

Archimedes, discovered the laws of lever.. He challenged to lift even enormous weights with a lever.. He even proposed to lift the whole of earth with a simple lever, provided he be given a place to stand...

"Give me a place to stand and I will move the earth!"

Tejas said...

Lever / Archimedes

Nanda said...

Claim by Archimedes that he can tilt the world given a lever of proper size

Vishnu Prasad said...

This is the archimedes lever

wheelsandwings said...

Archimedes: give me a place to stand and I will move the earth

Amit Dandekar said...

Archimedes

Lever Principle

Give me a place to stand on, and I will move the Earth

Saswat said...

Archimedes about Lifting over the earth using a lever.

Anonymous said...

archimedes lever



--------------v.chandrashekar

Anonymous said...

Archimedes

Anonymous said...

aristotle - that if he has a proper lever with a proper fulcrum he can even lift the earth

- P. Iyer

Siddarth Pai said...

archimedes
"give me an inch and i shall love the world"

rishwin said...

archimedes lever.!

ruhi shirodkar said...

archimedes
lever

M said...

archimedes

pranav said...

archemedis saying give me a place to stand and i shall move the earth

Vasudev said...

"give me a place to stand on , and i will move the earth"Archimedes