He is considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and made his greatest contributions in geometry (Archimedes of Syracuse. ... Some of the books he has written are as follows: On plane equilibriums, Quadrature of the parabola, On the sphere and cylinder, On spirals, On conoids and spheroids, On floating bodies, Measurement of a circle, and The Sand Reckoner. ... On plane equilibriums, shows the fundamentals of mechanics using geometry. In this book are theorems he discovered for the center of gravity of plane figures. ... Archimedes considered these to be amusements in geomet...

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In this house you can see one of the strongest principles of Wrights architectural career, which is geometry and clear shapes that interlock in a dynamic harmony. ... They had a style all their own, mimicking that of a horizontal plane, with no basements or attics. ...

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IDEAL STATE AND ITS THEORY OF EDUCATION "The object of education is to turn the eye which the soul already possesses to the light. The whole function of education is not to put knowledge into the soul, but to bring out the best things that are latent in the soul, and to do so by directing it to t...

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