Through Measurement to Knowledge

"Tile; D''apC:Tile; l. DpWTa ()coi 7rpo7rapod)w £ D''T}K,mi''. "between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows". This quote from Isiodos, the first lyrical poet, is jotted on a sheet of paper found among the papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. On this same sheet, one can also read quotes from Schiller, Goethe, Shakespeare, Homer, Pindar and Dante....