To: PatrickHenry
The palimpsest is a 1,000-year-old parchment made of goatskin containing Archimedes' work as laboriously copied down by a 10th century scribe. Two centuries later, with parchment harder to come by, the ink was erased with a weak acid (like lemon juice) and scraped off with a pumice stone, and the parchment was written on again to make a prayer book. An early example of religion suppressing science.
9 posted on
05/21/2005 5:17:43 AM PDT by
Junior
(“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
To: Junior
"An early example of religion suppressing science."
Oh, horse poop.
Love your tag line, by the way.
13 posted on
05/21/2005 5:58:55 AM PDT by
dsc
To: Junior
More like, an early example of the effect of poverty and "recycling" on cultural artifacts. A book then cost what an automobile costs today, the physical object.
27 posted on
05/21/2005 8:55:25 AM PDT by
JasonC
To: Junior
Who copied it out in the first place? Oh, that's right...
78 posted on
05/22/2005 10:34:34 PM PDT by
A.J.Armitage
(http://calvinist-libertarians.blogspot.com/)
To: Junior
Never ascribe to conspiracy what can be explained by incompetence.
100 posted on
05/23/2005 11:19:45 AM PDT by
frgoff
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