He was often so into his geometry that his servants would force him to get into a bathtub and, even while his servants anointed him with oils and perfumes, he would try to draw geometric diagrams on his body in the oil on his skin. ... The method is basically a "geometric method of the lever." ... In Quadrature of the parabola, he finds the area of a segment of a parabola cut off by any chord. ... Not being fully aware that the Romans had taken over the city, a Roman soldier came upon Archimedes while he was drawing geometric figures in the dust on the floor while working on a problem. ...

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