And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Still amazed by this.
It's the first computer that we know of. The Mesopotamian civilizations were also very much into celestial observations, and for all we know, could have also attempted such a machine.
They also had very complicated water clocks that told accurate time.
ReplyDeleteToo bad that Roman soldier skewered Archimedes, no telling what else he might have come up with.
DeleteThat sure makes me wonder what else the ancients had, that we know nothing of today.
ReplyDeleteHow many times have we only "re-discovered" what was once already known?