http://www.miraclesmagicinc.com Short stories of human inventions Fri, 14 Oct 2011 01:15:25 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.miraclesmagicinc.com/technology/latest-technology-invention-archimedes-may-be-back.html http://www.miraclesmagicinc.com/technology/latest-technology-invention-archimedes-may-be-back.html#comments Sun, 20 Dec 2009 01:12:53 +0000 merlin http://www.miraclesmagicinc.com/science/latest-technology-invention-archimedes-may-be-back/ What are you talking about? - Archimedes and latest technology invention in the same breath? For those not in the know - Archimedes was the ancient Greek's most famous mathematician. He was the one who ran through the streets naked yelling "Eureka" (I have found it) when he solved a very important problem while sitting in his bath. The latest technology invention is this - taking what most probably the latest and using it in a new way. Archimedes had scribed some of his theories on goat parchment somewhere between 287-212 B.C. Amazingly, this parchment has lived on - and in the middle ages a Monk scraped the papyrus and OVERWROTE Archimedes' writings - (which was probably the best thing to happen - because the writings lived on (covered over) as a Christian prayer book - thus not subject to destruction by anti-science thinkers of the Dark Ages and beyond). Without getting into the whole story - the manuscript has lived on to this day - where it was purchased at auction for about 2 million dollars, and then very graciously turned over to classicists and More >>]]> http://www.miraclesmagicinc.com/technology/latest-technology-invention-archimedes-may-be-back.html/feed 0