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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4845997, member: 99456&quot;]Thank you for both comments - I enjoyed the &quot;semantic nit-picking&quot; as it raised for me an interesting thought about where we might draw a line on science vs. pre-science....</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1169829[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/Aquatiliumanima00Salv/page/174/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/Aquatiliumanima00Salv/page/174/mode/2up" rel="nofollow"><font size="3">Bernardus Aretinus, Illustrator, 1554</font></a></p><p><br /></p><p>I like the imagined scene of Aristotle enjoying his days on Lesbos, talking with fisherman, watching sea life, making notes and drawings and trying to make sense of what he saw....and centuries/millennia later Darwin weathered by his sea voyage similarly observing finches.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1169828[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_giants" rel="nofollow">Blind Orion with Cedelion as his eyes</a></font></p><p>and further meandering to the life-cycle of ideas and how important it is to have&nbsp; diversity of experience and perspective, seeing with the eyes of each other and open exchange of ideas to build up the shoulders that the next person stands on.&nbsp; Good company, glasses of wine, some salty seafood, fresh herbs, olive oil, good bread and the sounds and smells of the ocean all go well with these thoughts...I think my next post-COVID-19, dream vacation is taking shape.&nbsp; This coin from Sicily, not Gold and not Lesbos, somehow seems relevant...</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1169933[/ATTACH]</p><p><font size="3"><b>Syracuse, Second Democracy</b>, 435-415BC, AE Tetrante or Trionkia</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Obv:</b> Head of <b>Arethusa </b>right, hair in korymbos, dolphin before and behind, ΣYPA before; all in linear circle</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Rev: </b>Octopus and three pellets (mark of value)</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Size:</b> 3.38g, 15mm</font></p><p><font size="3"><b>Ref: </b>Hoover 1428; the first bronze coins struck in Syracuse</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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