Throwback Thursday: don’t disturb my circles

 

“Don’t disturb my circles”. This sentence is assumed to be said by the Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer Archimedes of Syracuse. Despite Sicily is nowadays a part of Italy, it wasn’t part of the Roman Kingdome at his time. At that time the Empire wasn’t already founded. The story sais, he was working on some mathematical problems and therefore has had drawn some circles in the sand, when a roman soldier appeared during the Siege of Syracuse, a part of the second Punic war when the Roman Kingdom tried to defeat Carthage, to whom the kingdom of Syracuse was a friend of.

It’s said, the roman soldier became so angry about this disrespect, that he killed Archimedes although the orders were to only catch him and bring him along life and unharmed because of his valuable technical knowledge that could have been very useful for the Romans to improve their weapons.

I met this Gray wagtail one morning. She was extremely restless. For hours she was quickly running up and down along the pond where she lives. Finally, she went into the pond and in the end, she took a bath.

When looking at this image another idea came up to my mind, too. While she is standing in the circles and looking down at her mirror image, you could also say, she is standing self-absorbed in self-isolation inside her own-made circles at the edge of infinity.

So, that’s enough with psychology. Stay away from the SARS-CoV-2 virus triggering Covid-19 (aka corona virus disease 2019) and stay healthy during these dangerous times. Try to find some tasks to do that cheer you up or at least make you busy while staying in quarantine.

Take care!