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Archimedes and the moon.

Publication: American Atheist Magazine
Publication Date: 22-SEP-04 		Format: Online - approximately 1302 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Archimedes and the moon.(Editor's Desk)

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Madalyn Murray O'Hair was moved on more than one occasion to declare that had it not been for the baleful influence of Christianity, Christopher Columbus would have landed on the moon rather than on a Caribbean island. Many of those hearing her thought she was exaggerating, and many thought she was just plain wrong. It turns out that she was indeed wrong--but not in the way her discreditors might have supposed.

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Indirect but amazing light was shed on this brash assertion recently by a PBS NOVA program entitled "Infinite Secrets: The Archimedes Palimpsest." The program dealt with the decipherment of a long-lost manuscript of Archimedes entitled "On the Method of Mechanical Theorems." As I had suspected when I heard the first reports of this manuscript back in 1998, Archimedes had discovered the integral calculus--before the year 212 BCE!

Archimedes lived in Syracuse, a Greek colony on the island of Sicily. He was killed during the Roman invasion of the city in 212 BCE, but it is clear that a copy of the calculus book that he had written survived his death. From Syracuse, either his original manuscript or a copy must have...

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