Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on his tomb a cylinder enclosing a sphere, writing on it the proportion of the containing solid to that which is contained.


Plutarch, Life of Marcellus, 17.12. Trans. R. W. Sharples


Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on...

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on...

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on...

Having been the discoverer of many splendid things, he is said to have asked his friends and relations that, after his death, they should place on...