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Archimedes (291?-212 B.C.) Greek geometer and inventor. Among other mathematical and scientific accomplishments, he also gave formulas for the area of the circle and the ellipse.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 46. (Rossi, Gemme Antiche)
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