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<blockquote data-quote="Agonaces of Susa" data-source="post: 57299726" data-attributes="member: 253233"><p>Here is the actual history of pre-Hellenic Egyptian science, of which Carl Sagan is 100% ignorant.</p><p></p><p>"The scholars of Egypt were mostly priests.... <strong> According to their own legends the sciences had been invented some 18,000 B.C. by Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom, during his thousand-year-long reign on earth; and the most ancient books on each science were among the twenty thousand volumes composed by this learned deity</strong>. So we are assured by Iamblichus (ca. 300 A.D.). Manetho, the Egyptian historian (ca. 300 B.C.), would have considered this estimate unjust to the god; the proper number of Thoth's works, in his reckoning was 36,000. The Greeks celebrated Thoth under the name of Hermes Trismegistus -- Hermes (Mercury) the Thrice-Great. <strong>Our knowledge does not permit us to improve substantially upon the theory of the origins of science in Egypt</strong>." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935</p><p></p><p>"<strong>At the very outset of recorded Egyptian history we find mathematics highly developed; the design and construction of the Pyramids involved a precision measurement impossible without considerable mathematical lore</strong>." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935</p><p></p><p>"<strong>Nearly all the ancients agreed in ascribing the invention of this science [geometry] to the Egyptians</strong>." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935</p><p></p><p>"<strong>The oldest mathematical treatise known is the Ahmes Papyrus, dating back to 2000-1700 B.C.; but this in turn refers to mathematical writings five hundred years more ancient than itself</strong>." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935</p><p></p><p>"<strong>Of Egyptian physics and chemistry we know nothing, and almost as little of Egyptian astronomy. ... Perhaps they knew more than they cared to publish ... the priests regarded their astronomical studies as esoteric and mysterious science, which they were reluctant to disclose to the common world</strong>. <strong> For century after century they kept track of the position and movements of the planets, until their record stretched back for thousands of years</strong>." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Agonaces of Susa, post: 57299726, member: 253233"] Here is the actual history of pre-Hellenic Egyptian science, of which Carl Sagan is 100% ignorant. "The scholars of Egypt were mostly priests.... [B] According to their own legends the sciences had been invented some 18,000 B.C. by Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom, during his thousand-year-long reign on earth; and the most ancient books on each science were among the twenty thousand volumes composed by this learned deity[/B]. So we are assured by Iamblichus (ca. 300 A.D.). Manetho, the Egyptian historian (ca. 300 B.C.), would have considered this estimate unjust to the god; the proper number of Thoth's works, in his reckoning was 36,000. The Greeks celebrated Thoth under the name of Hermes Trismegistus -- Hermes (Mercury) the Thrice-Great. [B]Our knowledge does not permit us to improve substantially upon the theory of the origins of science in Egypt[/B]." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 "[B]At the very outset of recorded Egyptian history we find mathematics highly developed; the design and construction of the Pyramids involved a precision measurement impossible without considerable mathematical lore[/B]." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 "[B]Nearly all the ancients agreed in ascribing the invention of this science [geometry] to the Egyptians[/B]." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 "[B]The oldest mathematical treatise known is the Ahmes Papyrus, dating back to 2000-1700 B.C.; but this in turn refers to mathematical writings five hundred years more ancient than itself[/B]." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 "[B]Of Egyptian physics and chemistry we know nothing, and almost as little of Egyptian astronomy. ... Perhaps they knew more than they cared to publish ... the priests regarded their astronomical studies as esoteric and mysterious science, which they were reluctant to disclose to the common world[/B]. [B] For century after century they kept track of the position and movements of the planets, until their record stretched back for thousands of years[/B]." -- Will Durant, historian, The Story of Civilization, Volume I, Our Oriental Heritage, 1935 [/QUOTE]
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