Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Calculated Earth's circumference
Often attributed to Archimedes, but Eratosthenes also made significant contributions to mechanics and measurements of the earth, leading to similar philosophical statements about human capacity.
c. 250 BCE
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