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GA Moore wrote:

>Well there was a cult around Pythagorus I think.
Yes.

>Euclid's books were
>famous for millenia but some were destroyed in the fire in the library in
>Alexandria.

Not to put too fine a point on it, this was a most heinous crime against 
humanity for which Christians and Muslims were jointly responsible. At one 
of those burnings they were stoking the fires for over a week!! Imagine!!! 
All those books and manuscripts lovingly gathered over the centuries just 
GONE in wanton acts of sheer savagery.

And then there was that manuscript that showed up out of the blue in 18 
something or other where an old theorem by Archimedes had been covered over 
to put a prayer on.

Grrr. All that lost knowledge. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Kool Musick
Keep Musick Kool


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