Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.


In: Carl B. Boyer, A History of Mathematics (p. 91), John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 1968

Eudoxus of Cnidus Quotes

Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.

Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.

Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.

Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.