Mathematiker und Epigrammdichter (1719-1800). Autograph quotation signed. Göttingen. 09.05.1771. 1 S. Qu.-8vo.
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Greek quotation, transmitted by Sextus Pomponius and usually attributed to the jurist Salvius Julianus: "kan ton heteron poda en te soro echo, prosmathein ti bouloimen" ("And even if I have one foot in the grave, I still seek to learn more"). This saying forms a variation on a famous verse by Solon, "gerasko d' aiei polla didaskomenos" ("I grow older every day, but every day I learn more", fragment 22.7) - a thought which "for the first time in history conceives of learning as a mental process" (cf.