"I assure you that there's a lot involved in compositions with figures. ... It's like weaving... you must control and keep an eye on several things at once."

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I am the most travelled of all my contemporaries; I have extended my field of enquiry wider than anybody else, I have seen more countries and climes, and have heard more speeches of learned men. No one has surpassed me in the composition of lines, according to demonstration, not even the Egyptian knotters of ropes, or geometers.

— Democritus