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What do you mean by test of time? Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony? Or some random tech stuff like
by LordHeini 5y ago
What do you mean by test of time?
Is this applicable to Minecraft if there is Michelangelos David, or Beethovens 5th Symphony?
Or some random tech stuff like Git if all the math is run on the shoulders of the likes of Euklid?
But to add something technical:
Nicolas Appert the guy who did canning before Pasteur could explain how it worked.
- aerique 5y agoIsn't Minecraft the David or 5th Symphony of our time?
- debanjan16 5y agoIt applies to everything you mentioned. I didn't ask anyone to compare the relative greatness of the creations.
- CoastalCoder 5y agoForgive the tangent, but this is the first time I've seen Euclid written with a "k". In retrospect that seems like the more obvious Latinization. I wonder why Euclid is more common.
- dmurray 5y agoI suspect the clue is in your phrasing: Latinization. European scholars wrote in Latin, where "k" is uncommon and "kl" almost unknown, and transliterated Εὐκλείδης as "Euclidis". Later writers in French and English - but probably not in Germanic languages other than English - turned this into "Euclid". If the Elements was discovered now, we'd probably favour a more direct transliteration of the Greek: Eukleidos.
- LordHeini 5y agoWell i did not think about it, the name is written with k in Germany. The Germans keep a lot of the Greek K in names where in general the latinized version with an C is used by others.