The Perimeter Of The Earth

There Are Things Which Seem Incredible To Most Men Who Have Not Studied Mathematics.

Eureka! (i Have Found It!).

Equal Weights At Equal Distances Are In Equilibrium And Equal Weights At Unequal Distances Are Not In Equilibrium But Incline Towards The Weight Which Is At The Greater Distance.

How Many Theorems In Geometry Which Have Seemed At First Impracticable Are In Time Successfully Worked Out!

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.