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Originally Posted by WillAdams
If it were filed under fiction, it would be marginably acceptable, but as HistoryWes noted, his cherry-picking of facts and ignoring anything which doesn't suit his agenda goes against the most basic principles of science.
http://www.debunker.com/texts/vondanik.html
William |
Cool article. He doesn't mention the surveyer's wheel idea of why numbers similar to pi can often be derived from manipulating the dimensions of Egyptian monuments; i.e. that they used a wheel for measuring out land, with a diameter equal to a standard unit of measurement which was also be used in determining height, so it would build pi in there without the builders being aware of it. That theory must be more recent, I suppose.