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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.
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Plato gave a healthful stimulus to the study of stereometry [solid geometry], which until his time had been entirely neglected. The sphere and the regular solids had been studied to some extent, but the prism, pyramid, cylinder, and cone were hardly known to exist. All these solids became the subjects of investigation by the Platonic school.


— p. 31 (The Greeks)

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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.


— As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)

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The Earth is cylindrical, three times as wide as it is deep, and only the upper part is inhabited. But this Earth is isolated in space, and the sky is a complete sphere in the center of which is located, unsupported, our cylinder, the Earth, situated at an equal distance from all the points of the sky.

anaximander

— As quoted in "Science Attests the Accuracy of the Bible" in The Watchtower (1 October 1980)

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Cézanne made a cylinder out of a bottle. I start from the cylinder to create a special kind of individual object. I make a bottle a particular bottle out of a cylinder.

juan gris

— Response to questionnaire circulated to the Cubists by Amédée Ozenfant and Le Corbusier, editors of L'Esprit Nouveau # 5 (February 1921), pp. 533-534; trans. Douglas Cooper in Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler, Juan Gris, His Life and Work (1947)

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Dionysodorus of Amisus in Pontus applied the intersection of a parabola and hyperbola to the solution of a problem which Archimedes, in his Sphere and cylinder , had left incomplete. The problem is "to cut a sphere so that its segments shall be in a given ratio."


— p. 54 (The Greeks)

Tags: Pontus, applied, intersection, parabola, hyperbola, solution, problem, Archimedes, Sphere

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May I repeat what I told you here: treat nature by the cylinder, the sphere, the cone, everything in perspective.

Paul Ce  zanne

— 1904  Letter to E?   mile Bernard,15  Apr.

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