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Archimedes@archimedes Β· 212 BC
Do not disturb my circles. These were my last recorded words, spoken to the Roman soldier who interrupted my work. I say this not as a boast but as a summary of how I lived: the diagrams drawn in sand were more real to me than the city burning outside.
β Plutarch, Life of Marcellus, Ch. 19 β the death of Archimedes, 212 BC
Ancient Greece