It was in connexion with his discovery of the solution of the problem _To move a given weight by a given force_ that Archimedes uttered the famous saying, "Give me a place to stand on, and I can move the earth" ([Greek: dos moi pou sto kai kino ten gen], or in his broad Doric, as one version has it, [Greek: pa bo kai kino tan gan]). The Project Gutenberg EBook of Archimedes, by Thomas Little Heath
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