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Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Leibniz said "He who understands Archimedes and Apollonius will admire less the achievements of the foremost men of later times." Gauss' heroes were Archimedes and Newton, and Moritz Cantor, who studied under him in the University of Göttingen, reported that he once remarked in conversation that “there had been only three epoch-making mathematicians: Archimedes, Newton, and Eisenstein."
Isaac Newton
This now-widespread belief that he died a virgin has been commented on by writers as diverse as mathematician Charles Hutton, economist John Maynard Keynes, and physicist Carl Sagan.
Carl Sagan
Following his marriage to his third wife (novelist Ann Druyan) in June 1981, Sagan became more politically active—particularly in opposing escalation of the nuclear arms race under President Ronald Reagan.
Ronald Reagan
In her book ''Reporting Live'', former CBSWhite House correspondentLesley Stahl recounted that in her final meeting with the president in 1986, Reagan did not seem to know who she was.
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Leonardo da Vinci repeatedly expressed admiration for Archimedes, and attributed his invention Architonnerre to Archimedes.
Leonardo da Vinci
Italian Renaissance polymath (1452–1519)
Works have also been at Holkham Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and in the private hands of John Nicholas Brown I and Robert Lehman. The Codex Leicester is the only privately owned major scientific work of Leonardo; it is owned by Bill Gates and displayed once a year in different cities around the world.
Bill Gates
On February 18, 2021, after Facebook and Twitter had banned Donald Trump from their platforms as a result of the 2020 United States presidential election which led to the 2021 United States Capitol attack, Gates said a permanent ban of Trump "would be a shame" and would be an "extreme measure".
Donald Trump
In 2018, journalist Lesley Stahl recounted Trump's saying he intentionally demeaned and discredited the media "so when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you".
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
Galileo Galilei, who in 1586 invented a hydrostatic balance for weighing metals in air and water inspired by the work of Archimedes, considered it "probable that this method is the same that Archimedes followed, since, besides being very accurate, it is based on demonstrations found by Archimedes himself."
Galileo Galilei
Italian polymath (1564–1642)
Twentieth-century plays have been written on Galileo's life, including ''Life of Galileo'' (1943) by the German playwright Bertolt Brecht, with a film adaptation (1975) of it, and ''Lamp at Midnight'' (1947) by Barrie Stavis, as well as the 2008 play "Galileo Galilei".
Bertolt Brecht
German poet, playwright, and theatre director (1898–1956)
Brecht collaborated with Piscator during the period of the latter's landmark productions, ''Hoppla, We're Alive!'' by Toller, ''Rasputin'', ''The Adventures of the Good Soldier Schweik'', and ''Konjunktur'' by Lania. Brecht's most significant contribution was to the adaptation of the unfinished episodic comic novel ''Schweik'', which he later described as a "montage from the novel".
The Good Soldier Švejk
1921–1923 novel by Jaroslav Hašek
Joseph Heller said that if he had not read ''The Good Soldier Švejk'', he would never have written his novel ''Catch-22''.
Catch-22
1961 novel by Joseph Heller
{{external media | width = 250px | align = right | headerimage= | video1 = [https://www.c-span.org/video/?302675-1/50th-anniversary-joseph-hellers-catch22 "50th Anniversary of Joseph Heller's ''Catch-22''"] – Lesley Stahl moderating a panel made up of Christopher Buckley, Robert Gottlieb, Mike Nichols, and Scott Shepherd, October 18, 2011, C-SPAN }}
Archimedes
Greek mathematician and physicist
René Descartes rejected it as false, while modern researchers have attempted to recreate the effect using only the means that would have been available to Archimedes.
René Descartes
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist (1596–1650)
Descartes has often been called the father of modern philosophy, and is largely seen as responsible for the increased attention given to epistemology in the 17th century.{{NoteTag|See also: Epistemological turn.}} He laid the foundation for 17th-century continental rationalism, later advocated by Spinoza and Leibniz, and was later opposed by the empiricist school of thought consisting of Hobbes, Locke, Berkeley, and Hume.
Baruch Spinoza
17th-century philosopher
* 1915: The 20th-century novelist W. Somerset Maugham alluded to one of Spinoza's central concepts with the title of his novel ''Of Human Bondage'' (1915).{{citation needed|date=April 2015}}
