Jay Ambrose: Thank the ancient Greeks for civilization as we know it

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Eight hundred years ago, a monk did his best to erase a copy of some of Archimedes’ most important work, putting some prayers on the parchment instead, and the words of the great Greek mathematician were then gone forever.

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