>> Archimedes went all 'eureka' down the street naked [citation needed] Here you go: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/the-original-nak

>> Archimedes went all 'eureka' down the street naked [citation needed] Here you go: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/the-original-naked-scientist/ http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/articles/article/the-... Two points here: 1 - "Whenever Archimedes is pictured in his watery moment of inspiration, he is typically alone in a tub in what appears to be his home. But the Greeks of antiquity, like the Romans after them, bathed in a public facility with attendants to receive and store patrons’ garments. If the legend is true, Archimedes would have been at the public baths when he had his Eureka! moment and might have rushed home to pursue the idea, perhaps neglecting to retrieve his clothes. Even then, history’s premier naked scientist might not have been completely bare. According to classicist Lydia Lake, “naked” in antiquity – Greek gumnos, Roman nudus – had a dual meaning: either stripped of all clothing or else lacking an outer garment, such as a toga or scarf-like wrap (chlamys). Archimedes might have sprinted through the streets of Syracuse in his underwear – what we would today recognize as a tunic" 2 - "The Eureka! story – fact or fable – is the touchstone of creative epiphany. It represents the culmination of Archimedean effort: that still mysterious cognitive path that scientists tread toward solutions, fundamental truths, and new ideas."