Are we just re-discovering previous knowledge attained by the Greeks and the other ancient peoples?
To an extent, it is a fact:
1.) Steam was invented in the ancient world, a thousand years before it's rediscovery.
2.) Democracy was applied in Greece.
3.) Renaissance --- an age of rediscovery, of classicism.
4.) And then there's this......
The Antikythera Mechanism.
To an extent, it is a fact:
1.) Steam was invented in the ancient world, a thousand years before it's rediscovery.
2.) Democracy was applied in Greece.
3.) Renaissance --- an age of rediscovery, of classicism.
4.) And then there's this......
The Antikythera Mechanism.
A highly unusual artefact that was found by divers in 1900, off the coast of an island near Crete. It is now believed that the device was actually used for calculating the motions of stars and planets. The divers had been searching a shipwreck, and had found a number of marble and bronze statues before coming across a large piece of corroded bronze, found to contain a strange mechanism made up of a number of gears and wheels. After an X-ray had been performed on the object, it was found that the internal gearing was far more complex than first realised, consisting of a differential gearing system. After examining some writing found on the case, it was found that the strange device had been made in 80 BC. This was some one-and-a-half thousand years before mechanisms of such complexity had been invented.
There's also the legend of Atlantis, an ancient civilization that was supposedly the most advanced civilization of its time. But if the Greeks had technology like the 'mechanism', then what would Atlantis have?
Are we merely rediscovering what the ancient people have already applied?
Thoughts?
Comments?
P.S. Serious thread folks.
Link:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewarticle.php?id=12
Are we merely rediscovering what the ancient people have already applied?
Thoughts?
Comments?
P.S. Serious thread folks.
Link:
http://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/viewarticle.php?id=12
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