Dirichlet's Box Principle/Historical Note

Historical Note on Dirichlet's Box Principle
Dirichlet's Box Principle appeared in print as early as $1622$ in by.

It also appears, in greater detail, in the $1624$ work by "", also commonly attributed to.

It is commonly called Dirichlet's Box (or Drawer) Principle, after an $1834$ treatment by, who called it the Schubfachprinzip (drawer principle or shelf principle).

In Russian and some other languages, it is known as the Dirichlet principle or Dirichlet's principle, which name ambiguously also refers to the minimum principle for harmonic functions.

It is usually seen in its simplest form: if you have $N + 1$ objects to put into $N$ boxes, at least one box contains $2$ objects.