“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole France's words: The books that everybody admires are the books that nobody reads. But on taking… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The history of pi is only a small part of the history of mathematics, which itself is but a mirror of the history of… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Aristotle, we are invariably told, was "antiquity's most brilliant intellect," and the explanation of this weird assertion, I believe, is best summarized in Anatole… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the Colisseum and other places of Roman entertainment are difficult to judge without recalling what purpose they served. It was here… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Then there is Roman engineering: the Roman roads, aqueducts, the Colosseum. Warfare, alas, has always been beneficial to engineering. Yet there are unmistakeable trends… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“Rome was not the first state of organized gangsterdom, nor was it the last; but it was the only one that managed to bamboozle… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The Romans' contribution to science was mostly limited to butchering antiquity's greatest mathematician, burning the Library of Alexandria, and slowly stifling the sciences that… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“If we do not require a calendar to be geared to a tropical year (earth's orbit), but only that it be geared to some… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
“The architecture of the thugs also differs from that of normal societies. It can often be recognized by the megalomaniacal style of their public… — Petr Beckmann Copy Share Image
