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I dunno man. Surely this is the sort of thing that it makes sense for a historian to do (they don't tend to like this sort of approach).
Tobacco and alcohol are included, but there is no mention of other botanical or mycological developments outside food production. Those would be an interesting addition.
Genuine question: how does it make sense that both bread and alcohol fermentation were invented before the domestication of any grain? Were people making bread (and beer!) with gathered seeds?
Tobacco and alcohol are included, but there is no mention of other botanical or mycological developments outside food production. Those would be an interesting addition.
Such as?
I dunno man. Surely this is the sort of thing that it makes sense for a historian to do (they don't tend to like this sort of approach).
But they won't do it if they don't like this sort of approach! Which I think is wrong of them btw. But I don't think I've heard from historians much since this project went public.
If you are doing a large project on the history of science (you have clearly put a ton of work into this) but you aren't communicating with historians of science that's concerning to me.
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what's the technological difference between Chinese Writing and Western Writing? why are they separate?
(Not an expert but) Chinese writing is hieroglyphic, wheres 'western writing' is phonetic. Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press, whereas hieroglyphics have thousands of characters (for thousands of concepts) but aren't fundamentally linked to the language like western characters are.
This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in the west but has largely been debunked by more recent scholarship that is less interested in demonstrating the superiority of the west.
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The traditional way of making a multi-start screw is to use a dividing head and rotate the part an appropriate angle. If you're working with change gears, choosing a gear that's a multiple of the number of starts could provide alternate way to do this.
Oh yes, flipping the screw blank end-over-end would be an awkward way to do it unless you wanted to make a screw with two starts each having opposite errors. Once the screws have gotten good enough you wouldn't need to bother with things like that.
Any time you let go of a part you're going to have to re-locate it before you start cutting again, and you will lose accuracy in the process.
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(Not an expert but) Chinese writing is hieroglyphic, wheres 'western writing' is phonetic. Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press, whereas hieroglyphics have thousands of characters (for thousands of concepts) but aren't fundamentally linked to the language like western characters are.
> Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in the west but has largely been debunked by more recent scholarship that is less interested in demonstrating the superiority of the west.
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> Western writing has a very small character set and is thus well-suited to a printing press This is vastly overstated. This was a widely popularized idea in the west but has largely been debunked by more recent scholarship that is less interested in demonstrating the superiority of the west.
Do you have links to relevant research?
History research is typically published in books rather than papers, so it isn't content I can link to directly.