"The diameter of the earth is greater than the diameter of the moon and the diameter of the sun is greater than the diameter of the earth."
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"The centre of gravity of any cylinder is the point of bisection of the axis."
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"How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!"
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"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."
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"Eureka, Eureka! (I found it, I found it!)."
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