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Is Atlas Holding Hipparchus' Lost Star Map?
cr0kin0le writes "The Farnese Atlas at the Naples National Archaeological Museum may be holding a celestial globe which accurately depicts the long-lost star catalog of Hipparchus, according to a physics professor at Louisiana State University."
Unfortunately due to excessive American religous zeal, even the classical art must now conform to the hypocritical standards of the fundamentalist Christian movement.
Ladies and gentlemen - I give you the well placed leaf - the Christian's burka, if you will.
Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses. If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.
I stated the rule. There are reasonable exceptions for the sake of preserving life and health. And even this is done as decently and discreetly as possible. You're not going to have testicular surgery as a public exhibit. That would be wanton disgrace.