Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge containe… - Lucio Russo

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Unfortunately, the optimistic view that "classical civilization" handed down certain fundamental works that managed to include the knowledge contained in the lost writings has proved groundless. In fact, in the face of a general regression in the level of civilization, it's never the best works that will be saved through an automatic process of natural selection.

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Lucio Russo (22 November 1944 – 12 July 2025) was an Italian physicist, mathematician and historian of science.

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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.

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