"Just as an iron ball surrounded by pieces of magnet does not fall though standing (supportless) in the sky, in the sa…"

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

"There is not the slightest doubt that every piece of empirical evidence can be explained away by one who wants to han…"

"note here that the long-standing claims of Euclid's existence, and the surprisingly flimsy evidence on which they are…"

"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”…"

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

"The khichdi geometry in the NCERT text for Class 9 is indigestible because it has mixed up the Elements by mixing up …"

"Such forgeries were common enough... So unenviable was the reputation that priests had acquired in this matter that I…"

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