Marcus Terentius Varro (116-27 BC)
There are certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases.
I'd be interested if you know of others like this guy.
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SeniorCitizen007,
"There are certain minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, but which float in the air and enter the body through the mouth and nose and cause serious diseases."
Satan sleeps in your nose at night = https://www.the-derafsh-kaviyani.com/english/mohammed-believe-it-or-else...
pages 12 & 13
Pythagoras............. 570BC - 495BC.
He was the first person, to my knowledge, to disprove the flat earth story in the bauble. All he did was look up!
By studying the movement of the stars in the night sky he worked out that the earth had to be round. It took a few more centuries before his idea became generally accepted but he was the first to suggest it.
There is an example of science starting to debunk the crap in the bauble before they even finished writing it!
His equation about right angled triangles is still taught in schools today.
@ MarylinC
Like Cognostic, you scare me. I ain't fooled by that avatar...
Anyway, Pythagorus did that before the Bible ever existed. The oldest copy is only 450 BCE if you go only by the Hebrew Pentateuch version. There Greek versions of the Septuagint that are older.
So Pythagorus may not have even known about the Bible.
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Leucippus and his better known pupil Democritus who suggested that all things were made up of extremely small, indivisible particles, separated by empty space, five hundred years before Yeshua supposedly lived.
To quote Majikthise from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Universe, "Bloody ‘ell! That’s what I call thinking!"
Can't always be sure. There is a risk of looking look at historic statements from the current perspective (and with eyes half closed) and seeing some profound perception in the statements that wasn't really there. You will find plenty of people who manage to find 'modern science ' in the Bible and Koran.
“All religions pride themselves on developing analogies normally after the truth has been discovered by scientists.” — Peter Atkins
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