• the Académie de Poésie et de Musique, which was founded in 1570 under the auspices of Charles IX of France by the poet Jean-Antoine de Baïf and the musician Joachim Thibault de Courville, was the first academy in France?
• American statesman John Milledge named Athens, Georgia, the city surrounding the University of Georgia, after Athens, Greece, the city of Plato's Academy?

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Archimedes

• Ostomachion is a mathematical treatise attributed to Archimedes on a 14-piece tiling puzzle (pictured) similar to tangram?
• an infinite geometric series with a common ratio of 1/4 (pictured) was used by Archimedes in 250-200 BC to find the area enclosed by a parabola?
• in On the Sphere and Cylinder, Archimedes expressed the volume contained in a sphere in terms of that of a cylinder?