Anagrams — Who Can It Be?

1. DIME SEARCH     "If I had a fulcrum, I could move the world."
    
2. SCARED SET     He did not belong to this set, for he was a soldier before he was a mathematician.
    
3. A DACRON     He could not have "obtained" a dacron shirt, but he seems to have "acquired" a solution of a cubic equation.
    
4. PANIER     He was not a Frenchman, and his "bones" were not kept in a basket.
    
5. LE RUE     He crossed bridges instead of streets.
    
6. MENU SALE     He was one of the few of the first century AD who did original mathematical work of any ability.
    
7. WAS ILL     He had much to do with the founding of the Royal Society in England.
    
8. ALL PACE     He discovered a famous differential equation.
    
9. RED TOUGH     Yet he was delighted to hear of the king's return, and even invented a rule.
    
10. ROME DIVE     He was chosen to decide the controversy over the discovery of the calculus.
     

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