Births
- Philo of Byzantium, a Greek writer on mechanics (approximate date) (d. c. 220 BC)
- Li Si, influential prime minister (or chancellor) of the feudal state and later of the dynasty of Qin (approximate date) (d. 208 BC)
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“As the births of living creatures, at first, are ill-shapen: so are all Innovations, which are the births of time.”
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