From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at the time. ... Should we not replace these foreshadowings by the study of the influences of… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was foreshadowed at… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous child of Newton's… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
![“Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed by other writings. Heron presumably mentioned the anemourion in a moment of distraction, forgetting that it had not been invented yet. We know that…” quote by Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ab2/lucio-russo-43521_disregarded_many-scholars-have-felt-that-the-heronia_2047751.jpg)
![“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.” quote by Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d48/lucio-russo-43521_antiquity_today-eratosthenes-method-of-calculating_2489686.jpg)
![“The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fiction voyage into the future as much as a plunge into the past.” quote by Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/279/lucio-russo-43521_comment_the-oft-heard-comment-that-leonardo-da-v_2595258.jpg)
![“Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of finite numbers. This is exactly what contemporary mathematical analysis does.” quote by Lucio Russo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/66c/lucio-russo-43521_analysis_euclid-manages-to-obtain-a-rigorous-proo_2943863.jpg)