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On the general point that the European literate culture pretty much starts with classical Greece: yeah.

On the general point that the European literate culture pretty much starts with classical Greece: yeah. OTOH if you look just a little later at people like Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, ... you see work that's both correct and of the highest quality. I wish there was much more left from that era to give us a better idea how that happened. Later antiquity had terrible taste in what to preserve.

Posted by abecedarius on Oct 19, 2014, 5:57 AM

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On the general point that the European literate culture pretty much starts with classical Greece: yeah.

abecedariusOct 19, 2014, 5:57 AM

On the general point that the European literate culture pretty much starts with classical Greece: yeah. OTOH if you look just a little later at people like Euclid, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, ... you see work that's both correct and of the highest quality. I wish there was much more left from that era to give us a better idea how that happened. Later antiquity had terrible taste in what to preserve.

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