Lucio Russo Citas

• Por desgracia, la visión optimista de que la "civilización clásica" legó ciertas obras fundamentales que lograron incluir los conocimientos contenidos en los escritos perdidos ha resultado infundada. De hecho, ante un retroceso general del nivel de civilización, nunca son las mejores obras las que se salvan por un proceso automático de selección natural.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Optimistic, Views

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.8, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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 genius. The new attitude is well illustrated by the anecdote of the apple, a legend spread by Voltaire, one of the most active and vehement erasers of the past. ... The need to build the myth of an ex nihilo creation of modern science gave rise to much impassioned rhetoric.

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  Children, Attitude, Past

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

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• About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Water, Naked

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

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• Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a "science" whose content is void by definition. Similar considerations hold for parapsychology.

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  Mean, Flying, Definitions

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.15, Springer Science & Business Media

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• 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.

  Lucio Russo

  Finite Number, Numbers, Doe

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

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• 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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  Latin, Civilization, Earth

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

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• Muchos estudiosos han considerado que el pasaje heroniano [sobre un órgano de tubos movido por una rueda parecida al anemourion] puede descartarse porque no está confirmado por otros escritos. Es de suponer que Herón mencionó el anemourion en un momento de distracción, olvidando que aún no se había inventado. Sabemos que era propenso a este tipo de lapsus.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Lapses, Pipe Organs

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

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• 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 Hellenistic thought on modern thought?

  Lucio Russo

  Dream, Logic, Study

  Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy (2013). “The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn”, p.228, Springer Science & Business Media

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• La afirmación de que el genio de Leonardo [da Vinci] consiguió trascender la cultura de su época está ampliamente justificada. Pero el suyo no fue un viaje de ciencia ficción al futuro, sino una inmersión en el pasado.

  Lucio Russo

  Past, Culture, Fiction

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

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