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Archimedes

also: Архимед

The ancient Greek mathematician and inventor of Syracuse, famous for the (probably apocryphal) "Eureka" bathtub anecdote and the boast that he could move the earth given a lever and a place to stand.

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Mentioned in 3 works (5 mentions)

Poems and Dubia (school-age and disputed juvenilia) Juvenilia · 2 mentions
The Alarm Clock's Calendar Stories · 2 mentions
To A. S. Suvorin, 3 November 1888. Moscow. letter · 1 mention

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