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How can they know exactly what technology was available to Archimedes? Have you seen the Antikythera Mecanism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mech
by ta1234567890 7y ago
How can they know exactly what technology was available to Archimedes?
Have you seen the Antikythera Mecanism (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism)? That thing is way ahead of what we usually think the available technology was at the time.
- Noxmiles 7y agoMany of those things are "hushed up", when archaeologists find things that are against the established picture of this time it's always a "we don't know what that is, but it can't be this - because at this time this didn't existed". e.g. look at Göbekli Tepe in turkey.
- froh 7y agohttps://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6bekli_Tepe A 10.000-12.000 year old structure.
- rebuilder 7y agoIt doesn't seem like a matter of technology - the design as described simply doesn't work, is how I understand it. Think about it - there's a limit to how much steam, and how quickly, you can generate by introducing water to a preheated copper tube.