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1 posted on 08/04/2006 7:39:31 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
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Rick E. Martin / Mercury News

Senior Conservator Abigail Quandt prepares to load a goatskin
parchment bearing the work of Archimedes to be scanned.

2 posted on 08/04/2006 7:42:18 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi ......Help the "Pendleton 8' and families -- http://www.freerepublic.com/~normsrevenge/)
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Eureka!


3 posted on 08/04/2006 7:42:39 PM PDT by eddie willers
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further proof that Christians don't get science? /sarc (for the people in Loma Linda).


5 posted on 08/04/2006 7:47:15 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (dust off the big guns.)
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Cool, does this mean we can now fire up the cold fusion device?


7 posted on 08/04/2006 7:56:28 PM PDT by AbeKrieger (Liberals are the Mongol herds destroying America from within.)
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Image hosted by Photobucket.com drink your ovaltean...???
9 posted on 08/04/2006 8:09:05 PM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist ©®)
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GGG Ping Candidate.


11 posted on 08/04/2006 8:42:14 PM PDT by zeugma (I reject your reality and substitute my own in its place. (http://www.zprc.org/))
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Just adding this to the GGG catalog, not sending a general distribution.

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13 posted on 08/04/2006 8:47:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (updated my FR profile on Thursday, July 27, 2006. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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best known for discovering the principle of buoyancy while taking a bath.

Inventor of the rubber duckie?

14 posted on 08/04/2006 8:51:22 PM PDT by monkeyshine
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I don't think it was bouyancy he discovered. It was mass and volume.


17 posted on 08/04/2006 8:56:36 PM PDT by nonliberal (Graduate: Curtis E. LeMay School of International Relations)
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Ironically enough, the writings revealed plans for a linear accelerator. In fact, translated loosely from the Greek they read "If you can read this, you don't need to."


22 posted on 08/04/2006 9:45:11 PM PDT by IronJack
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After a fine analysis of the parchment, the scientists discovered E=MC^2 written on the parchment and the mystery of Atlantis was solved.

APf
24 posted on 08/04/2006 9:47:41 PM PDT by APFel (Individualism. The alpha and the omega.)
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the 3rd century B.C., Archimedes is considered one of ancient Greece's greatest mathematicians

Sicily would be Greater Greece.

33 posted on 08/06/2006 9:20:14 AM PDT by RightWhale (Repeal the law of the excluded middle)
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Fascinating, and an excellent find!

I wonder what their anticipated recovery rate is, if they can get 50% of it or 90%.

36 posted on 08/01/2009 8:20:03 PM PDT by Lexinom
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Three centuries later, a monk scrubbed off the Archimedes text and used the parchment to write prayers at a time when the Greek mathematician's work was less appreciated.

Prolly a YEC'er

37 posted on 08/01/2009 8:24:06 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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