[BipolarBob]

I am thankful to the Greeks for pi, coconut cream pi specifically.

[sjmiller]

"Known as the founder of integral calculus and mathematical physics". I'm a mathematician, and it's a bit of a stretch to call him the founder of integral calculus; that's usually reserved for Newton and Leibnitz. Archimedes came extremely close, as evidenced by his approximation of pi by looking at inscribed and circumscribed polygons about the circle.

[Balding_Eagle]

All societies have contributed to the rise of mankind.

Americans should be thanked for the atomic bomb, without which there would be no civilization.

[GeorgefromGeorgia]

"Meanwhile, our civilization, while veering down many wrong paths, has veered up many right paths..."

Western Civilization has led the World in creating political and economic freedom and a culture that allows progress.

Multiculturalism be damned, all cultures are not equal.

[Cruz]

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[Sam Cree]

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[jamaksin]

This discovery is thought to be a fragment of what is called "The Method" - and in fact does predate that English guy with the apple (and fluxons) and the German fellow.

[longtermmemmory]

bump

Interesting footnote,

shortly after the Greek war of independence from the ottoman empire, one of the Greek leaders said to an american official "we honor our past by emulating your present."

The United States is truly the heir to the Hellenic Enlightenment. It is a WAY of thinking in which all things can be studied and examined.

It is not just the individual parts but how you put all those parts together.

The attack on the classics is a blatent attempt to dumb down thinking. Look at the founders, they activly sought to create a modern Olympus in Washington DC. The multiculturalists want to dumb down everyone into balkanized zombies who cound never have the intelectual thought to make connections. The ancient Greeks were voracious seekers of ideas, the modern NEA is a voracious censor of ideas.

The melting pot is welcoming of ideas put together. Multiculteralism is the anti-hellenic force of destruction that all agree keeps ideas from being shared and growing.

It is a sad mark that the parts of the world suffering stagnation and missery failed to build upon the hellenic past. (this includes europe)

[ozzymandus]

I thought it was Irish monks who saved civilization by copying Greek and Roman scrolls during the Dark Ages. I guess it depends on which book you read.

[mrsmith]

"a monk did his best to erase a copy of some of Archimedes' most important work,"

What idiocy.

The parchment was merely recycled. Parchment was expensive. There was no intent to erase anything.

[SunkenCiv]

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