physorg.com— A little known school of scholars in southwest India discovered one of the founding principles of modern mathematics hundreds of years before Newton according to new research.
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This is a bit disingenuous. Rather, you can thank one expression of one particular religion for its "contribution." It's hardly as though all religions were out there burning libraries. In fact, many religions were busy building libraries.
No-one educated thought the world was flat. It was propaganda spread about the Catholic church by protestants after the reformation. Why the English should get the blame in this instance I can't fathom, since the English were probably at the forefront of the propoganda effort.
That is not so weird, if you take into account that 12 is also 3*4, I.e. we can divide it by 3 or 4 without having remainders. This is quite handy for day to day use of e.g. splitting currency or land to a few people.
openthinkAug 13, 2007
amazing what you discover when you start looking at things without predispositions....
tyrssonAug 14, 2007
This is a bit disingenuous. Rather, you can thank one expression of one particular religion for its "contribution." It's hardly as though all religions were out there burning libraries. In fact, many religions were busy building libraries.
Closed AccountAug 14, 2007
<a class="user" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_calculus</a>
fracture98Aug 14, 2007
Well, this may be true, but the inventor of the wheel hardly deserves credit for inventing the car.
geiger253Aug 15, 2007
No-one educated thought the world was flat. It was propaganda spread about the Catholic church by protestants after the reformation. Why the English should get the blame in this instance I can't fathom, since the English were probably at the forefront of the propoganda effort.
briangoAug 15, 2007
Leonardo da Vinci anyone? Nicholas of Cusa? Kepler? Hello? Leibniz? Gauss??? Oh ya, and Newton is very overrated.
darthc0daAug 16, 2007
complete bull! the egyptians and babylonians both found estimations of pi long before this. and 2000 years ago archemedies estimated it.
nedstarkAug 16, 2007
That is not so weird, if you take into account that 12 is also 3*4, I.e. we can divide it by 3 or 4 without having remainders. This is quite handy for day to day use of e.g. splitting currency or land to a few people.