The first book purports to establish the "law of the lever" (magnitudes balance at distances from the fulcrum in inverse ratio to their weights), and it is mainly on the basis of that treatise that Archimedes has been called the founder of theoretical mechanics.
The first even purports to challenge the core idea underlying abduction; the second is not quite as general, but it is still meant to undermine a broad class of candidate explications of abduction.
Beelzebub, his second novel, purports to be the memoirs of a fifth-century doctor-monk and passionate lover named Hypa, whose scrolls are unearthed by a 20th-century translator.
Last weekend his newspaper published the first pictures purporting to show British soldiers humiliating Iraqi detainees.
The first message purported to be from the generic email thread of UCL Provost Michael Arthur at 10.47pm last night, simply – and cryptically – reading just "bello".
Three days after the shooting, the first video purporting to contain a message from the hacking collective Anonymous appeared on YouTube.
The second part purports to be an actual day-to-day log, although the language often betrays that this is not the case.
The controversial non-canonical Secret Infancy Gospel of James, dated to the mid second century, purports to fill in some details of Mary's birth and early life.
A second video purported to show a thunderous blast.
