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

[Bob Sciamanda <trebor@VELOCITY.NET>]

Hi Herb,
I don't know if Archie fathered that expression, but he leaped far ahead
of his time in the mechanics of levers/machines, in optics and in the
phenomenon of buoyancy (others please expand this list).

I have often remarked that this is one individual of whom I might be
persuaded to believe to have been an extra-terrestrial visitor to earth!

Bob

Bob Sciamanda (W3NLV)
Physics, Edinboro Univ of PA (em)
trebor@velocity.net
http://www.velocity.net/~trebor

----- Original Message -----
From: "Herbert H Gottlieb" <herbgottlieb@JUNO.COM>
To: <PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu>
Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2000 4:00 PM
Subject: 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)