About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings. (Lucio Russo)

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. ... One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

Lucio Russo

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