Eureka! (i Have Found It!).

Eureka! (i Have Found It!).

Having Been The Discoverer Of Many Splendid Things, He Is Said To Have Asked His Friends And Relations That, After His Death, They Should Place On His Tomb A Cylinder Enclosing A Sphere, Writing On It The Proportion Of The Containing Solid To That Which Is Contained.

Rise Above Oneself And Grasp The World.

The Diameter Of The Earth Is Greater Than The Diameter Of The Moon And The Diameter Of The Sun Is Greater Than The Diameter Of The Earth.

Archimedes To Eratosthenes Greeting. ... Certain Things First Became Clear To Me By A Mechanical Method, Although They Had To Be Demonstrated By Geometry Afterwards Because Their Investigation By The Said Method Did Not Furnish An Actual Demonstration. But It Is Of Course Easier, When We Have Previously Acquired By The Method, Some Knowledge Of The Questions, To Supply The Proof Than It Is To Find It Without Any Previous Knowledge.