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(August 9, 2008 5: 32: 00 AM CDT) according to pliny the elder*, it took 20,000 slaves to move/lift the obelisk to its base. pliny's natural history [specifically the thirty-sixth book] describes how the egyptians moved such obelisks.

Moving the Vatican Obelisk 2007
Nick's pointer to pliny's comment is the place to start, but yes, G&T ARE claiming that it is not the net heat flow that counts but the fact that ANY heat flows from the colder to the hotter body.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
Take pliny's discs, one at T1 and the other at T2.

Rabett Run EliRabett 2009
The pear, though cultivated in classical times, appears, from pliny's description, to have been a fruit of very inferior quality.

On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life 1859