Hmm …

… More Than a Feeling by Tyler Malone | Poetry Foundation. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

“Eureka! Eureka!—I found it! I found it!”—cried Archimedes, the ancient Greek mathematician, as he stepped into the bath and noticed the water level rise. In this moment of intuition, he suddenly understood that the volume of water displaced must equal the volume of the body part that’s submerged. Or so the story goes.

Only he didn’t intuit it. He made an observation and drew an inference. It is a nice coincidence that Poe intuited that the universe began with the Big Bang that Friedmann and Lemaitre inferred from observation. I’ll stick with the Poe of  “The Philosophy of Composition.”