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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."
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18 comments:

  1. indianApril 22, 2011 at 4:53 PM

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

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  2. AasleshApril 22, 2011 at 6:56 PM

    Archimedes.

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

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  3. prashanthApril 22, 2011 at 7:11 PM

    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!"

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  4. TejasApril 22, 2011 at 8:08 PM

    Lever / Archimedes

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  5. NandaApril 22, 2011 at 9:43 PM

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

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  6. Vishnu PrasadApril 22, 2011 at 10:22 PM

    This is the archimedes lever

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  7. wheelsandwingsApril 23, 2011 at 12:07 AM

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

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  8. Amit DandekarApril 23, 2011 at 12:31 AM

    Archimedes

    Lever Principle

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

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  9. SaswatApril 23, 2011 at 1:55 PM

    Archimedes about Lifting over the earth using a lever.

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  10. AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 5:21 AM

    archimedes lever



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

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  11. AnonymousApril 25, 2011 at 10:08 PM

    Archimedes

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  12. AnonymousApril 26, 2011 at 8:01 PM

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

    - P. Iyer

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  13. Siddarth PaiApril 28, 2011 at 9:55 PM

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

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  14. rishwinApril 29, 2011 at 12:23 PM

    archimedes lever.!

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  15. ruhi shirodkarApril 29, 2011 at 12:34 PM

    archimedes
    lever

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  16. MApril 29, 2011 at 7:47 PM

    archimedes

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  17. pranavApril 30, 2011 at 11:38 PM

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

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  18. VasudevMay 1, 2011 at 3:56 PM

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

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