Originally Posted by Beckee
When I was a kid, I read about Archimedes in the encyclopedia. He was drawing circles in the dirt--no doubt to work out the solution to some sort of problem--and told a Roman soldier not to mess up the circles, so the Roman solider killed him.

I thought, "I can so totally see that happening to me."

Archimedes had peers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism