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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;-jeffB, post: 7935099, member: 27832&quot;]Archimedes came <i>this</i> close to developing integral calculus, almost 2000 years ahead of Newton. If we could&#039;ve knocked over the stupid Roman soldier who killed him, who knows what he could&#039;ve accomplished with additional years? And then if we could have <i>preserved</i> that knowledge, and passed it along to the Arabic scholars who were advancing mathematics while Europe stagnated, and maybe tied in Chinese rockets, instead of trying to convert one another at swordpoint -- who knows? Maybe the earlier societies of Africa the Americas could have developed without interference, while Europe colonized <i>planets</i> rather than continents.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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