"Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal ... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently."

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Source : "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

Lucio Russo

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“I had done all that I could, and no Man is well pleased to have his all neglected, be it ever so little.”
“Everything is Energy and that is all there is to it. Match the frequency of the reality you want and you can not help but get that reality. It can be no other way. This is not philosophy. This is physics.”
“Something must have form to be seen but must make sense to be understood and used.”
“But the biggest thing that has happened in the world in my life, in our lives, is this: By the grace of God, America won the Cold War.”
“Sam Kinison was one of the most compulsive people I'd ever seen. James Belushi was that way, and Chris Farley was that way. He was incredibly talented and made me laugh so hard, and there was nothing he wouldn't say. Such a unique, amazing, cynical, realistic, but still optimistic look at life he had. It was great fun to get to know him.”

Source : Source: film.avclub.com
“Joanna Priestleyâ€™s amazing body of animated films have deservedly earned their place in the pantheon of contemporary international animators. Inventively visioned, superbly crafted, and rich with insight into the physical and spiritual dilemmas that confront us all, each new work provides an unexpected pleasure.”
“The picture is good or not from the moment it was caught in the camera.”
“The Westwood Cemetery is just a few blocks from my home, and a number of my very dear friends are buried there.”

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