{"id":37380,"date":"2017-08-01T13:02:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/?p=37380"},"modified":"2018-09-05T08:57:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T07:57:59","slug":"tsikritsis-minas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/tsikritsis-minas\/","title":{"rendered":"Tsikritsis, Minas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Minas<\/strong><strong> Tsikritsis, <\/strong>a native of Crete, is a Professor of Computer Science and noted Researcher of Aegean Scripts. Included in his work is his claim to have deciphered <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/linear-a-n\/\">Linear A<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/phaistos-disk\/\">Phaistos Disk<\/a>, one side of which appears to be a form of sea shanty. <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/976\/\">Gavin Menzies<\/a> quotes<sup>[<\/sup><sup><a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/main-bibliography\/m\/\">780<\/a>.319]<\/sup> Tsikritsis&#8217; belief that the <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/minoan-hypothesis\/\">Minoans<\/a> had mathematical knowledge equal, if not superior, to that of the Babylonians and Egyptians.<\/p>\n<p>However, this claim has been seriously challenged by a recent study of a 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet known as <em>Plimpton 322<\/em>. The tablet was discovered around a century ago in what is now southern Iraq. Australian scientists from the University of New South Wales, Sydney have now demonstrated that the tablet is the world&#8217;s oldest and most accurate trigonometric table, predating the Greek astronomer Hipparchus by over a millennium<sup>(b)<\/sup>. These claims\u00a0have generated some considerable debate <sup>(c)<\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Additionally, based on an analysis of Plutarch\u2019s <em>\u201cOn the Apparent Face in the Orb of the Moon,\u201d<\/em> Tsikritsis believes that the Greeks had contact with North America, at least as far back as 86 AD!<sup>(a) <\/sup><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span>Some time later he expanded on the idea in a paper published on the <em>Researchgate<\/em> website<sup>(d)<\/sup>.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><sup>(a)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/canada.greekreporter.com\/2012\/04\/21\/researcher-claims-ancient-greeks-made-it-to-america-before-columbus\/\">https:\/\/canada.greekreporter.com\/2012\/04\/21\/researcher-claims-ancient-greeks-made-it-to-america-before-columbus\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(b)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/29\/science\/trigonometry-babylonian-tablet.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/08\/29\/science\/trigonometry-babylonian-tablet.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><sup>(c)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/roots-of-unity\/dont-fall-for-babylonian-trigonometry-hype\/\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/roots-of-unity\/dont-fall-for-babylonian-trigonometry-hype\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/strong><sup>(d)<\/sup> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/321319687\/download\">https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/321319687\/download<\/a><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minas Tsikritsis, a native of Crete, is a Professor of Computer Science and noted Researcher of Aegean Scripts. Included in his work is his claim to have deciphered Linear A and the Phaistos Disk, one side of which appears to be a form of sea shanty. Gavin Menzies quotes[780.319] Tsikritsis&#8217; belief that the Minoans had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5405,63,662,3686,1625,1363,291,4720,210,5416,378,5420],"class_list":["post-37380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-babylonians","tag-crete","tag-gavin-menzies","tag-hipparchus","tag-linear-a","tag-minas-tsikritsis","tag-minoans","tag-north-america","tag-phaistos-disk","tag-plimpton-322","tag-plutarch","tag-trigonometry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}