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> I can’t help but see parallels with Ancient Greece. The Ancient Greeks made tremendous breakthroughs in philosophy and mathematics–just think about Plato, So
by pietroppeter 7y ago
> I can’t help but see parallels with Ancient Greece. The Ancient Greeks made tremendous breakthroughs in philosophy and mathematics–just think about Plato, Socrates, Euclid, or Pythagoras–but they had no technology to speak of.
I can’t help but remark how completely untrue this sounds to you if you have read the magnificent and forgotten book by Lucio Russo, see [1]. Greeks of centuries III-II BC had plenty of tech and they were much more modern than new scientists of centuries XVI-VII.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409445 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22409445