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THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem. -- Anne Carson
First of all, we must note that the universe is spherical. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
The earth also is spherical, since it presses upon its center from every direction. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
We regard it as a certainty that the earth, enclosed between poles, is bounded by a spherical surface. -- Nicolaus Copernicus
GoPro's capture devices and Kolor's software will combine to deliver exciting and highly accessible solutions for capturing, creating, and sharing spherical content. -- Nick Woodman
If you're in a motion-capture studio, you have spherical, reflective markers, which are picked up by cameras that emit infrared - it reflects it, and then the cameras pick up the data. -- Andy Serkis
In 1880 at the Military Hospital at Constantine, I discovered, on the edges of the pigmented spherical bodies in the blood of a patient suffering from malaria, filiform elements resembling flagellae which were moving very rapidly, displacing the neighbouring red cells. -- Charles Louis Alphonse Laveran
I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload. -- William Shockley
Man's body had a different shape in the past from that of the present, and from that which it will have in the future. During involution it was approximately spherical, as it still is during ante-natal life, because the intra-uterine development is a recapitulation of past stages of evolution. -- Max Heindel
One may conceive light to spread successively, by spherical waves. -- Christiaan Huygens
Astronomers are spherical bastards. No matter how you look at them they are just bastards. -- Fritz Zwicky
The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary. -- Aristotle
Asking about a time before the beginning of our spherical spacetime is like asking what lies north of the North Pole. There is no such thing. -- Taner Edis
All at once, I couldn't figure out why I was methodically tossing a spherical object through a toroidal object. It seemed like the stupidest thing I could possibly be doing. -- John Green

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