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Archimedes, "The sand-reckoner", 287, B.C., pp. 520-526, in Adler, M.J. (ed.), Great Books of the Western World, 10, 1952, 1990, Encyclopaedia Britannica. Google
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reprinted from translation by Sir T.L. Heath, Oxford University Press
520 ;;Quote: some of the numbers named by Archimedes exceed the grains of sand that would fill the universe
520 ;;Quote: Aristarchus of Samos conjectured that the earth revolves around the sun, and the stars are far away
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