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Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

CrazyOldCatMan Silver badge

Re: I'll Bite.... Yes, I know he was trolling

If the Romans hadn't thought that military strength and slave labour was better than Greek intelligence

Given that the Romans were technically a lot more advanced (and the Greeks also had both military might and slavery) this is a bit disingenuous..

(The ancient Greek philosophers were very much of the 'thought experiment' mould - very uninterested in practical mechanics[1]. Add the fact that most of them were from the 'gentleman' class and, as such, had a huge aversion to manual labour, it's unlikely that their materials science and technology would have increased terribly fast.)

[1] With obvious exceptions like Hero..

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