The oft-heard comment that Leonardo [da Vinci]'s genius managed to transcend the culture of his time is amply justified. But his was not a science-fi…

- Lucio Russo

From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowled…

- Lucio Russo

Since UFO stands for "unidentified flying object", the word ufology means approximately "knowledge about unknown flying objects", and is therefore a …

- Lucio Russo

Euclid manages to obtain a rigorous proof without ever dealing with infinity, by reducing the problem [of the infinitude of primes] to the study of f…

- Lucio Russo

Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilization…

- Lucio Russo

Many scholars have felt that the Heronian passage [on a pipe-organ moved by an anemourion-like wheel] can be disregarded because it is not confirmed …

- Lucio Russo

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

- Lucio Russo

The age-long history of thinking on gravitation, too, was erased from the collective consciousness, and that force somehow became the serendipitous c…

- Lucio Russo

About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures…

- Lucio Russo