Word: euclid
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Parker gave a very interesting talk before the Religious Union in Holden Chapel last night on the Stoic poet, Cleanthes. Cleanthes was by profession an athlete or boxer who lived in Athens in the time of Euclid and Archimedes. He was not by profession a poet, but when he came to Athens he soon saw that there was something better to live for than boxing. So he put himself under the instruction of Zeno, a Stoic philosopher. But since he was a poor man he was obliged to work nearly all night to support himself. He was summoned before...
Professor Wiggins of Ottawa claims to have solved the problem how to trisect a given rectilineal angle. Since the time of Euclid the solution of this problem has been regarded as impossible...