Eureka (word) "Eureka! Eureka!" after he had stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose, whereupon he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must be equal to the volume of the part of his body he had submerged. (This relation is "not" what is known as Archimedes' principle—that deals with the "upthrust" experienced by a body immersed in a fluid.) He then realized that the volume of irregular objects could be measured with precision, a previously intractable problem. He is said to have been so eager to share his discovery that he leapt out of his bathtub
The Cry of Jazz put it in stone." In an introduction to "The Cry of Jazz" delivered at the Maysles Documentary Center in Harlem, film critic Armond White hypothesized that Bland may also have been responding to Norman Mailer's essay "The White Negro", which reflects positively on the appropriation of African American culture and language by young white hipsters. The reception of "The Cry of Jazz" when it was first released in 1959 was mixed at best, "hideous" at worst. In 1960 Bland claimed that "The reaction of a great majority of Negro audiences...has been favorable." However, in a 2007 interview, Bland described the