A
Novel
that
Celebrates
Science
by
Andrew
Bone
"Euclid... Remember Freddie Euclid?"
"Freddie Euclid?!"
"Vell... zee textbooks, zey alvay say just 'Euclid' - but I zay he must to be haffing a first name, too, ja? Vat vere his family called, eh? Papi Euclid, Mamma Euclid, and little Euclids vaan, two, t'ree?! He needed to invent a new mathematics just to vurk out whose turn it vas to use the bathroom... Tso I call him Freddie till zomvaan ist bringing me a birth certificate to zer contrary."
Einstein tells Sean about his childhood hero, Euclid.
[Vitruvian Boy, Chapter 17]
Quote kindly suggested by Sean Bone, webmaster.
