Author Topic: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D.  (Read 3070 times)

xarax

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraklas
"Heraklas on Knots: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D.", World Journal of Surgery 32 (4): 648?655


    
« Last Edit: February 11, 2011, 05:26:52 PM by xarax »
This is not a knot.

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Re: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D.
« Reply #1 on: October 22, 2010, 04:48:15 AM »
Wow that was cool!  :o ;D
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Re: Sixteen Surgical Nooses and Knots from the First Century A.D.
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2010, 09:43:37 PM »
Fascinating.
I hope I will be allowed just a smidgen, though, of scepticism:  We have not seen the original Greek text (not that I, for one, would understand it).  Nor have we had a translation.  We have had an interpretation, with diagrams, of a translation of a copy of the original text.  It would be interesting to read through a translation, to see whether we of the IGKT forum would, based on Heraklas's written descriptions, come up with the same knots as the illustrator whose drawings are shown above. 

Nice find Xarax!