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Re: PSEUDO-SCIENCE ? (rambling but not long)



On Sun, 27 Feb 2000 15:33:22 -0500 Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>
writes:

I cannot quarrel with this statement. I only want to give due to
the achievements of a much earlier (and too unsung) scientist:
Archimedes.

Wasn't he the one who is credited with the scientific explanation
of air pressure by pronouncing that "nature abhors a vacuum" ???

Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where we remember that Archimedes made great
discoveries by displacing water in his bath tub)