Jean de la Fontaine (1621-1695) The hare and the tortoise - illustration from the first edition of the fables; moral stories based on those of Aesop; written in the fourth century BC; also a philosopher and mathematician Zeno of Elea Eleatic greek school; was inspired by a moral fable of Aesop to illustrate one of his relative speed on the paradoxes: that of Achilles and the tortoise. Engraving XVII Century