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Lucio Russo

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About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting Heureka!, plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. … One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.
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1.1, "The Erasure of the Scientific Revolution", p. 6

 
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