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[kimon07]

More British achievements, still waiting for a major Greek achievement in the last 2000 years ...

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of modern calculus and gravity.

Isaac Newton did not 'invent' these things. He discovered them, writing in Greek and Latin and building on ideas first developed by Ancient Greek mathematicians and philosophers. So this 'British achievement' was only made possible by astonishing Greek pioneering thinkers hundreds of years earlier...

precisely!...pioneering thinkers thousands of years earlir....

[Me Ed]

More British achievements, still waiting for a major Greek achievement in the last 2000 years ...

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of modern calculus and gravity.

Isaac Newton did not 'invent' these things. He discovered them, writing in Greek and Latin and building on ideas first developed by Ancient Greek mathematicians and philosophers. So this 'British achievement' was only made possible by astonishing Greek pioneering thinkers hundreds of years earlier...

precisely!...pioneering thinkers thousands of years earlir....

Precisely, nothing recent of any note ...

[boomerang]

I detect a hint of jealousy here from the Greek wannabies.

At least it hasn't been over 2000 years since the British achieved anything of note.

Fernando Alonso, just a few days ago:

I don't really understand politics but it is true that the situation is not great in Spain; but a Spanish driver in an Italian car, designed by a Greek man (Nicholas Tombazis) winning in Germany. It´s great", he said.

http://www.theapricity.com/forum/showth ... ?p=1032209

Nicholas Tombazis (born April 22, 1968 in Athens, Greece) is the chief designer at Ferrari. He was employed at Ferrari as chief aerodynamics before leaving to work at McLaren in 2003. He returned to Ferrari on March 1, 2006, to become chief designer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Tombazis

I Know you will feel stupid now. But you should not. You should be proud of your descent.

(unless, of course, you are descented from those kilingirous who didn't have private toilets and bathrooms in their homes till the late '70s).

...but for this idiotic mental retard to make fun of cypriots that couldn't afford much those times is totally disgusting...total disrespect for all cypriots...but looking back at those times we were still ahead of the backward greeks...i wonder if this moronic retard has a name for the backward greeks...well lets have it ...be a man and when you talk the talk you need to grow some cojones and walk the walk...come on give us the name for the backward greeks...

iden o kolos to vratjie tjie eshestike...

[kimon07]

At least it hasn't been over 2000 years since the British achieved anything of note....The fact is that the British can but the Greeks simply cannot.

Look here my pall. After the Greeks, «ουδέν κρυπτόν υπό τον Ήλιον»

The myth of Newton's apple, did Hipparchus discover Newtons gravity and inverse square law?
Michael Lahanas

"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Was Newtons apple in reality Hipparchus of Rhodes, the Greek mathematician? New evidence exists that like Copernicus who did not mention Aristarchus heliocentric model also Newton did not mention the sources of his “revolutionary ideas”. Newton knew the book of Pappus and other books of ancient Greeks. In his last years he even believed that the Greeks had a knowledge that did not survived, according to some statements in the book of Pappus. Newton believed that Descartes analytic method was not superior to the geometric methods of the Greeks. Descartes was convinced that his mathematical discoveries provided a method of doing much simpler calculations. We know that this is correct if we compare the first geometric proofs of Newton with analytic algebraic proofs.
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HipparchusGraviation.htm

[Me Ed]

At least it hasn't been over 2000 years since the British achieved anything of note....The fact is that the British can but the Greeks simply cannot.

Look here my pall. After the Greeks, «ουδέν κρυπτόν υπό τον Ήλιον»

The myth of Newton's apple, did Hipparchus discover Newtons gravity and inverse square law?
Michael Lahanas

"If I have seen farther it is by standing on the shoulders of giants".

Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)

Was Newtons apple in reality Hipparchus of Rhodes, the Greek mathematician? New evidence exists that like Copernicus who did not mention Aristarchus heliocentric model also Newton did not mention the sources of his “revolutionary ideas”. Newton knew the book of Pappus and other books of ancient Greeks. In his last years he even believed that the Greeks had a knowledge that did not survived, according to some statements in the book of Pappus. Newton believed that Descartes analytic method was not superior to the geometric methods of the Greeks. Descartes was convinced that his mathematical discoveries provided a method of doing much simpler calculations. We know that this is correct if we compare the first geometric proofs of Newton with analytic algebraic proofs.
http://www.mlahanas.de/Greeks/HipparchusGraviation.htm

Look pal, if your going to start threads with the intention of dissing the recent achievements of the British you better have an arsenal of recent achievments of your own, instead of flogging the dead donkey of ancient Greece.

[Get Real!]

Look here my pall. After the Greeks, «ουδέν κρυπτόν υπό τον Ήλιον»

Only a total idiot would find worth in the bankrupt union of Balkan gypsies!

Raise your bloody standards and quit making a dork of your self!

[boomerang]

More British achievements, still waiting for a major Greek achievement in the last 2000 years ...

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of modern calculus and gravity.

Isaac Newton did not 'invent' these things. He discovered them, writing in Greek and Latin and building on ideas first developed by Ancient Greek mathematicians and philosophers. So this 'British achievement' was only made possible by astonishing Greek pioneering thinkers hundreds of years earlier...

precisely!...pioneering thinkers thousands of years earlir....

Precisely, nothing recent of any note ...

in other words the greeks of then were/are different from what we call greeks today...today's greeks excell at the fine arts of mathematics in cooking up books...

warning
when you see greeks touring villages in cyprus and in vans, be suspicious...very suspicious...katsikokleftes are in town...

[Me Ed]

More British achievements, still waiting for a major Greek achievement in the last 2000 years ...

Sir Isaac Newton, inventor of modern calculus and gravity.

Isaac Newton did not 'invent' these things. He discovered them, writing in Greek and Latin and building on ideas first developed by Ancient Greek mathematicians and philosophers. So this 'British achievement' was only made possible by astonishing Greek pioneering thinkers hundreds of years earlier...

precisely!...pioneering thinkers thousands of years earlir....

Precisely, nothing recent of any note ...

in other words the greeks of then were/are different from what we call greeks today...today's greeks excell at the fine arts of mathematics in cooking up books...

warning
when you see greeks touring villages in cyprus and in vans, be suspicious...very suspicious...katsikokleftes are in town...

Tragically yes and it's where they attempt to gleen any shred of kudos they can grasp onto.

[GreekIslandGirl]

Lol

Unable to digest the fact that the world wide web wasn't a British invention; Me Ed would have us believe that the British invented gravity!

[Hermes]

Precisely, nothing recent of any note ...

Without the Ancient Greeks there would be nothing recent of any note.