About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures… — Lucio Russo Crowns 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"… — Lucio Russo Consideration Copy Share Image
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was… — Lucio Russo Dream 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… — Lucio Russo Active 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… — Lucio Russo Best work 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… — Lucio Russo Disregarded 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… — Lucio Russo Antiquity 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… — Lucio Russo Comment 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… — Lucio Russo Analysis Copy Share Image