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The Romans tried to build tall buildings, but they kept falling down, and a decree eventually stopped further attempts. They lacked the engineering knowledge an
by Jach 2y ago
The Romans tried to build tall buildings, but they kept falling down, and a decree eventually stopped further attempts. They lacked the engineering knowledge and mathematics necessary, not the desire. Similar story with ship sizes. I think the book "Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down" covers some of it...
- cm2187 2y agoThe pantheon is a fairly tall building. I doubt the problem was the lack of engineering. Rather that those tall residential buildings were not built by wealthy emperors with access to engineers but built organically, often by the inhabitants themselves and more akin to a vertical favela.