Archimedes came close to discovering Calculus?
 

was ahead of his time.

*Greek military advisor*

The Romans are sacking our cities. We have to raise more armies!

*Greek tech advisor*

Researching Calculus, due in 3 turns. *Click* Researching The Legion, due in 14 turns. That's the whole story.

I remember in school learning about how Archimedes had used rectangles under a parabola to determine the area under the curve and thinking...that it was integral calculus.

Archimedes, one of the greatest geniuses ever with Newton and Gauss

I think of the contrary.
Hadn´t he turned the manuscript into a prayer book,
maybe it hadn´t survived till this day, but instead probably had been burned or gotten lost like so many scientific manuscripts of the classic age.

Science was worth nothing in these time unless it was approved by the church http://www.discussworldissues.com/fo...ilies/wink.gif

Originally posted by Proteus_MST
Noli perturbare circulos meos. English translation:

"The knarlly circular cat is perturbed."