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XXII. Miscellaneous Notes: 1475.

1475.

Archimedes gave the quadrature of a polygonal figure, but not of the circle. Hence Archimedes never squared any figure with curved sides. He squared the circle minus the smallest portion that the intellect can conceive, that is the smallest point visible. 818

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    : 1475. Compare No. 1504.

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