The Greek Aristarchos (about 2200 yrs ago) wrote a work that got burned to a crisp along with most other books in the the Serapeum/Library of Alexandria when the christians did their usual trick of burning libraries. (CS-C-2)
The book's title however is known - IIRC it was listed in another text that did survive - and even the title revealed that the topic Aristarchos wrote on was specifically about how the earth and the other visible planets (which were known up to Saturn in the outer orbit) orbited around the sun and that the earth revolved around itself taking a day to do so. That Aristarchos had long ago drawn these conclusions is well-known - no thanks to modern peddlers of later plagiarists - and is not the point of this post.
What's interesting is rather the stuff in blue in the following. Just like Newton (see 2 posts up) was so small-minded he was prone to make personal insults against others in the sciences - and Newton's "standing on the shoulders of giants" was not the great ode to humility that people have been peddling it as - it turns out Copernicus is a *known* and terrible plagiarist:
In the above the bullet pts are largely a direct quote, any paraphrasing is owing to having to type quickly. But the crucial final statement is a word for word direct quote. Even the emphasis on "suppressed" is there in the original, highly reliable source from where I stole the above statement.
[color="#0000FF"]The point is that - despite knowing the bit in blue - the rest of the west still peddles Copernicus far more often than Aristarchos, i.e. despite *knowing* that Copernicus was an unmistakable plagiarist* of the very ideas he's lauded with (*since he chose to suppress the reference to Aristarchos who was the source for his acquaintance with these ideas).
Points to a disturbing promotion of plagiarists.
Certainly seems to set a precedent (pattern?) for how knowledge of the existence of pre-Euro Hindu work in Calculus [and its influence] c/would similarly have been deliberately suppressed by plagiarists and their peddlers.[/color]
The book's title however is known - IIRC it was listed in another text that did survive - and even the title revealed that the topic Aristarchos wrote on was specifically about how the earth and the other visible planets (which were known up to Saturn in the outer orbit) orbited around the sun and that the earth revolved around itself taking a day to do so. That Aristarchos had long ago drawn these conclusions is well-known - no thanks to modern peddlers of later plagiarists - and is not the point of this post.
What's interesting is rather the stuff in blue in the following. Just like Newton (see 2 posts up) was so small-minded he was prone to make personal insults against others in the sciences - and Newton's "standing on the shoulders of giants" was not the great ode to humility that people have been peddling it as - it turns out Copernicus is a *known* and terrible plagiarist:
Quote:[Aristarchos ("earth revolves around the sun"):
- correctly located earth's position in the solar system
- deduced from eclipse info that the sun is much much larger than the earth
- he puts sun in the centre of the solar system, with earth and other planets going around the sun
- also had earth rotating on its axis once a day]
[color="#0000FF"]These are ideas that we ordinarily associate with the name Copernicus. But Copernicus seems to have gotten at least some hint of these ideas by reading about Aristarchos. In fact, in the manuscript of Copernicus' book, he referred to Aristarchus but in the final version, he *suppressed* the citation.[/color]
(CS-C-7-45)
In the above the bullet pts are largely a direct quote, any paraphrasing is owing to having to type quickly. But the crucial final statement is a word for word direct quote. Even the emphasis on "suppressed" is there in the original, highly reliable source from where I stole the above statement.
[color="#0000FF"]The point is that - despite knowing the bit in blue - the rest of the west still peddles Copernicus far more often than Aristarchos, i.e. despite *knowing* that Copernicus was an unmistakable plagiarist* of the very ideas he's lauded with (*since he chose to suppress the reference to Aristarchos who was the source for his acquaintance with these ideas).
Points to a disturbing promotion of plagiarists.
Certainly seems to set a precedent (pattern?) for how knowledge of the existence of pre-Euro Hindu work in Calculus [and its influence] c/would similarly have been deliberately suppressed by plagiarists and their peddlers.[/color]