Extemporaneous musings, occasionally poetic, about life in its richly varied dimensions, especially as relates to history, theology, law, literature, science, by one who is an attorney, ordained minister, historian, writer, and African American.
Sunday, June 4, 2017
ARCHIMEDES CONSIDERED
"Again, he [Archimedes] used to say, in the Doric speech of Syracuse : “Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.”
ΕΛΕΓΕ ΔΕ ΚΑΙ ΔΩΡΙΣΤΙ ΦΩΝΗ ΣΥΡΑΚΟΥΣΙΑ, “ΠΑ ΒΩ ΚΑΙ ΧΑΡΙΣΤΙΩΝΙ ΤΑΝ ΓΑΝ ΚΙΝΗΣΩ ΠΑΣΑΝ.”
John Tzetzes (12th century AD)
Book of Histories (Chiliades) 2, 129-130
Translated by Francis R. Walton"
THIS MIGHT MEAN THAT KNOWING WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHY, WHOSE, YOU ARE ENABLES "YOU" WITH A "LEVER"--WITH WHATEVER TOOL THAT "YOU" MAY HAVE--TO OVERCOME THE WORLD, INDEED TO TRANSFORM THE WORLD, AS WELL!