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- - The quadrature of the circle is still, however, a favourite game with some visionaries, and several are still imagining that they have discovered the perpetual motion; the Italians nickname them matto perpetuo: and Bekker tells us of the fate of one Hartmann, of Leipsic, who was in such despair at having passed his life so vainly, in studying the perpetual motion, that at length he hanged himself! - "Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)", Isaac D'Israeli
- - Because some years previously in 1886 when occupied with the problem of the quadrature of the circle he had learned of the existence of a number computed to a relative degree of accuracy to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e. - "Ulysses", James Joyce
- - The Moon is then a semi- circle, or in quadrature. - "The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost'", Thomas Orchard
