>>14252103There are countless records of discoveries, ideas and scraps that were forgotten and later reinvented. This is the point of having systematic academic disciplines to begin have, although we have (very recently) forgotten that this is more than mere intellectual etiquette. This is due to postmodernist, iconoclastic sophist bullshit that has been allowed to fester in the Arts and Humanities.
If you just invent/discover something on its own it's a meaningless stab in the dark. People happen on some discovery and no one in that civilization even recognises its importance so it becomes lost and meaningless, only for Westerners to discover its potential thousands of years after the fact. That's why non-Europeans never made much progress despite having far more resources and far larger populations. They simply didn't care.
>>14252123>Well consider the romans had this machine, who knows what else they would of had at the time.The Antikythera mechanism was Grecian.
>Romans also created a steam engine. This was by a Greek invention again, but whatever I guess you mean it in the sense of the Roman world.
My point in bringing that up though is because despite Romans advancing various technologies (notably in manufacturing lines, metallurgy and civil engineering), they never fully embraced the rigorous Greek system of comprehensive education/tutelage and in particular they paid off the Greeks to keep studying natural philosophy and to research new engineering techniques. They recognised the importance, but most Romans themselves cared far more about gaining wealth and influence. It's telling that the less glamorous Holy Roman Empire lasted over twice as long as the Empire it was succeeding simply due to the fact that they cared more about preserving these disciplines and invested so much in early universities that still exist to this day.
