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Religions > Atheism |
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"Jim Hutton" |
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01 Oct 2003 11:07:46 AM |
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Archimedes on PBS |
I caught most of a show on PBS last night about Archimedes.
I cringed when they told about the monk who, having run out of paper for the
prayer book he was writing, took some of Archimedes' original papers,
scrubbed them almost clean and then wrote over them!
The cringe was not only because of that act but also the realization that
1000 years later, there are still those among us who would gladly delete,
say, Stephen Hawking's original work, if they needed the disk space for an
annotation of the bible.
aa #1696.
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| User: "Kronk" |
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| Title: Re: Archimedes on PBS |
01 Oct 2003 12:02:02 PM |
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On Wed, 1 Oct 2003 11:07:46 -0500, "Jim Hutton"
<atheist1696@hotmail.com> wrote:
I caught most of a show on PBS last night about Archimedes.
I cringed when they told about the monk who, having run out of paper for the
prayer book he was writing, took some of Archimedes' original papers,
scrubbed them almost clean and then wrote over them!
For a damn prayer book no less! I notice the show ventured to wonder
what might have been if Archimedes work had not been lost, but it
skirted the matter of how such works were lost, and how we wound up
falling into a Dark Age.
K.
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