According to legend, Archimedes', Greek mathematician, engineer, researcher, and inventor, reasoned that a substance such as gold must have a volume equal to its mass; measuring the body mass of an irregularly shaped object would require submersion in water and determining the water's overflow volume.

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Archimedes' principle is about buoyancy and states that the upward buoyant force exerted on a body immersed in a fluid, whether fully or partially submerged, is equal to the weight of the fluid that the body displaces. The story of measuring gold's volume by water displacement is related to determining the purity of a crown without melting it, not about equating volume directly to mass.

According to Legend, Archimedes', Greek Mathematician, Engineer, Researcher, and Inventor