Word: principio
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...exhibit contains more conventional, though equally engaging, religious works as well, such as the requisite medieval illustrated Bible. In this ornate Bible, the “I” from “In principio...” spans the entire height of the page and contains illustrations of each day of creation within it. This page also includes a calligraphic horse whose body forms and contains an Arabic quotation from the Qu?...
...William Shakespeare. Pi too has its heroes, Archimedes and Lindemann, and a poet in Dante, who in his Divine Commedy wrote eloquently about the geometer's inability to square the circle--"Qual e 'l geometra che tutto s'affige / per misurar lo cerchio, e non ritrova, / pensando, quel principio ond' elli indige..." But I don't speak Italian, and it seems that for the moment the guy who writes in English has the upper hand...
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