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Talk:World History Lecture Four (view source)
Revision as of 05:23, February 21, 2009
, 05:23, February 21, 2009→Intellectual Achievements
::Euclid's ''Elements'' are as intellectual as you can get: pure abstract math. But how about those Roman [[aqueduct]]s? Enough comparing as to who was 'better' in which area. Time to start writing some paragraphs about what each actually did. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 20:53, 20 February 2009 (EST)
::Euclid's ''Elements'' are as intellectual as you can get: pure abstract math. But how about those Roman [[aqueduct]]s? Enough comparing as to who was 'better' in which area. Time to start writing some paragraphs about what each actually did. --[[User:Ed Poor|Ed Poor]] <sup>[[User talk:Ed Poor|Talk]]</sup> 20:53, 20 February 2009 (EST)
:::Once you've done one arch, you've done a thousand. An aqueduct is but an arch replicated as many times as the distance necessitated. The trick was getting the gradient right. What Rome was best at was building on the work of others. It took the innovations of the past and improved them. But it had the nous to take the philosophy of the Greeks and the Stoics and meld it with the new Christianity to make a Church that would withstand the tribulations of the centuries far better than its own institutions could hope to. [[User:AlanE|AlanE]] 00:23, 21 February 2009 (EST)