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Secrecy of Mathematical Knowledge:
“I am quite confident that the early navigators knew a great deal about the Earth and that they were doing just what navigators and others were doing in my day in the Navy when the Navy instructions were when I was Commanding Officer, that if anybody was about to take my ship the first thing I would do would be to go to the rail and take all the leaded books, anything of importance was covered in lead, and throw them overboard. Men had been hiding their secrets in the sea for great ages, so I felt that many people carrying on their navigation could remember some of the principles in their head but much of the important record could get lost.”
