Ex ungue Leonem

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  • tanquam ex ungue leonem: (Latin) we know the lion by his claw. Said in 1697 by Johann Bernoulli about Isaac Newton's anonymously submitted solution to Bernoulli's challenge regarding the Brachistochrone curve.
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