> Half a millennium after Juliana Barnes died an unknown nun in an English convent on a planet without clocks, calculus, or democracy 1. Archimedes' Method con

> Half a millennium after Juliana Barnes died an unknown nun in an English convent on a planet without clocks, calculus, or democracy 1. Archimedes' Method contains calculus so for more than two millennia this planet certainly had it. 2. Democracy predates that by yet another three hundred or so years 3. Water clocks yet another seven hundred years What was the author smoking?