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— Joseph Glanvill"We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage."
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Today Eratosthenes' method [of calculating the circumference of the earth] seems almost banal... yet it is inaccessible to prescientific civilizations, and in all of Antiquity not a single Latin author succeeded in stating it coherently.
— Lucio Russo
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In matters pertaining to the care of life there has been no marked gain over Greek and Roman antiquity.
— Mary Ritter Beard
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