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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
?
Facts on topics related to Academy
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
?
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