Fri, 04 Aug 2006

Beams reveal Archimedes' hidden writings

I keep hearing about how Christianity, specifically the monks of Western Europe in the Middle Ages, "saved" civilization ... although what they saved it from is rarely explicitly stated, the implication is that it was horrible pagan depredations and heathen burnings.

Then I read tales like this one, and I have to wonder whose civilization they were saving and from whom.

AP - Previously hidden writings of the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes are being uncovered with powerful X-ray beams nearly 800 years after a Christian monk scrubbed off the text and wrote over it with prayers.

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On 8/5/2006 09:13:00
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