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This author's first sentence is: "There is an apocryphal tale I've heard many times about how, in Ancient Rome (or, in some tellings, Greece), the engineers res
by linuxkerneldev 11y ago
This author's first sentence is:
"There is an apocryphal tale I've heard many times about how, in Ancient Rome (or, in some tellings, Greece), the engineers responsible for the construction of an arch were required to stand underneath it as the final wooden supports were taken out."
This story is derived from Law #229 of the Code of Hammurabi (of Babylon). Babylon was not part of Greece, but it was very briefly part of the Roman empire.
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229 If a builder build a house for some one, and does not construct it properly, and the house which he built fall in and kill its owner, then that builder shall be put to death.
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http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp http://avalon.law.yale.edu/ancient/hamframe.asp
- trynumber9 11y agoGood point. However, it was part of the Hellenistic empires for more than 180 years. Alexander the Great even died in Babylon. It was subsequently ruled by the Seleucus dynasty, even after the inhabitants of Babylon were transferred to Seleucia. Not that it has anything to do with the Greeks putting engineers under their arch.
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoMy Dad told the tale of a farmer coming to the repair shop with a tractor gas tank needing repair. The mechanic refused. The farmer insisted he'd cleaned the tank; no danger of explosion while it was being welded. The mechanic replied "Ok, I'll weld it, if you hold it while I'm doing that." The farmer left.