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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

Related material . . .

"The southwest furthers."

A passage suggested by the previous post —

 
   — Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England :
        Robert Persons's Jesuit Polemic, 1580–1610
        by Victor Houliston (Ashgate Publishing, 2007)

"'The Owl in the Sarcophagus,' for all its incantatory
elegiac power, consists almost entirely of 
a self-generated and self-generating rhetoric.
It points up one of the limits of poetic composition itself,
the boundary where technique turns into technology."

— Bart Eeckhout in Wallace Stevens and the Limits
     of Reading and Writing , University of Missouri Press,
     2002, p. 210

See as well this morning's previous post.

"In theory, a robot could be the cloud-connecting Charon
that ushers us into the Internet of Things." 

— Bryan Lufkin at Gizmodo.com, July 29, 2015

Related material —

The death of MIT computability theorist Hartley Rogers, Jr.
at 89 on July 17, and this journal on July 17.