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 significant," and "a film everybody should look at with attention." Black intellectuals' reception of "The Cry of Jazz" was incredibly divided. The poet Amiri Baraka, one of the founding voices of the Black Arts Movement, reportedly found the film "profoundly insightful." Novelist Ralph Ellison, by Bland's own account, hated it. In 1960 the filmmaker Jonas Mekas organized a viewing and discussion of "The Cry of Jazz" in New York City. Attendees included Bland, Ellison, Nat Hentoff, and Marshall Stantoff. Debate over the film became so heated that the police were called. Bland responded to criticism of "The Cry of Jazz"