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Here Lies Archimedes

October 8, 2019From the book Change Is the Only Constant

Archimedes' tombstone shows his favorite result, a sphere inside a cylinder, and notes that his name is an anagram of "head crimes."

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[A tombstone with a sphere inscribed in a cylinder] "HERE LIES ARCHIMEDES who really dug this picture / his name is, and always will be, an anagram for 'head crimes'"

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