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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by hughw on Friday July 28, 2023 @07:12PM (#36914655)
Seems to me only after Galileo introduced the idea that we could use mathematics to predict physical outcomes could modern engineering take hold.
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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by asdff on Saturday July 29, 2023 @12:35AM (#36916972)
Long before Galileo. The Ancient Greeks had analog computers that could predict planetary movements.
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Re:Why No Roman Industrial Revolution? by hughw on Saturday July 29, 2023 @11:18AM (#36921098)
Sure. But they didn’t have a model that understood f=ma or inverse square distance gravity. They didn’t have a causal model. So they couldn’t use techniques of predicting planetary motion to predict projectiles motion. Galileo and Newton tied it all together.
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