Jan 132010
This list was certainly worth reading:
7 Books We Lost to History That Would Have Changed the World
While snarky and profane, it’s stilla good summary of many of the books that we know once existed, but exist no longer. To me, the loss of “On Sphere Making” by Archimedes is one of the greatest losses. While it would certainly be nice to have the other six volumes of the “Epic Cycle” (the two extant being the Illiad and the Odyssey), “On Sphere Making” could have sped up the industrial revolution by a millenium or more had it been known and read.
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Another good candidate would be emperor Claudius’ “Tyrrenikà” as it included a dictionary of the Etruscan language, which we still know just about nothing about.