"Though fiction is based on unreal things and things which haven’t been done before, I am constantly reminded by the c…"

"It would be rather pointless and confusing to retain in these books information that was incorrect or defective or in…"

"Nevertheless, this laughable hypothesis is exactly what has been adopted with the 12th and 16th c. sources of “Greek”…"

"Attributing a book to a famous early source added not only to-the authority of the book, but also to its market price…"

"“Ptolemy’s” Almagest begins (as natural for an 11th c. text) with what look like paraphrases of controversies from th…"

"So, in practice, Western history has used two standards of evidence for transmission: one ultra-lax standard of evide…"

"The Doctrine of Christian Discovery, which instigated the subsequent triple genocide in three continents of South and…"

"Therefore, it is hardly a matter of surprise that there is much similarity between Indian knowledge, and knowledge th…"

"In the many centuries, since Toledo, that Western historians have been talking of transmission from the Greeks, who e…"

"So, similarity and precedence do not always establish transmission. Whether or not they establish transmission depend…"