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5th century BC,Athens used to be a supremely rational society.The root of his argument was his assertion that every assumption must be tested and interrogated by reason.....

The Precise accusation levelled against Socrates by the democratic Athenian government in 399 BC was that he was: An evildoer and a person showing curiosity,searching into things under the earth and above the heaven and teaching all this to others and mainsupporter of the search of knowledge.....

North flourishes,South Perishes-Dr CN Annadurai

Aristotle described Plato in his death: The man whom it is not lawful for bad men even to praise; Here is a man atlast with his feet on the ground,a man whom people would refer for millennia..........

Tap the rich and Pat the poor-Dr CN Annadurai

Alexanders Library had more than 500.000books and was a repository of the whole worlds knowledge.Euclid,Archimedes,Ptolemy studied there....Alexander chose Achilles,Homers Hero from the Iliad as his role model,when he reached the famous fierce Achilles tomb,he said,O Happy man,who founded one so illustrious to trumpet your name and write so nobly of you for posterity....

Archimedes father pheidias was an astronomer,interested in the size of the Sun,Moon and their distance from Earth.Archimedes was untidy,unkempt,and dishevelled and was killed by a roman legionary because he refused to attend a march as he had to solve a certain problem........

Narrow passage which links the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans is called Strait of Magellan,Magellean travelled 13,000 miles in 98 days,wonderful accounts of his voyage was brought by the Italian Chronicler,Antonio Pigafetta....

For Magellan it was leap in the dark and had only his faith and rudimentary calculations: Now Moon in 1969,Best quality materials,greatest resources were invested,constant contact with earth and distances were known in advance and there were even instantaneous pictures from the moon landing,it was more of scientific exercise and a brilliant technological feat...

The first circumnavigation of the globe by Magellan in 1519 might be compared with the first space flight to the moon in 1969(450 years later) there were many differences...Magellan was given third rate vessels,his backers were reluctant to risk top quality ships on such an enterprise.No Communications,no way to touch with HQ in Spain,he set out to cross an ocean without knowing its extent....