Philosophy
Rather interesting, especially the "colloidal crystals".
Two books, the “De Architectura” by Vitruvius and the “Naturalis Historia” by Pliny the Elder, give us a portrait of the Materials Science, that is, the knowledge of materials, in Rome at the beginning of the Empire. Here, I am reporting some very attractive contents that we can find in these books. The reader will see the discussion proposed in fours case studies: concretes, coatings, amorphous materials and colloidal crystals, to describe them in modern words.
Materials Science in Ancient Rome by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Pliny the Elder [Wikipedia]
De Architectura [Wikipedia]
Naturalis Historia [Wikipedia]
- Archaeoastronomy And Maria Reiche
Maria Reiche devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs. In fact, she was an archaeoastronomer that proposed for the Lines some interesting astronomical interpretations. We can appraise her approach using satellite...
- The Pleiades And Ancient Civilizations
Abstract:In the ancient Egypt seven goddesses, represented by seven cows, composed the celestial herd that provides the nourishment to her worshippers. This herd is observed in the sky as a group of stars, the Pleiades, close to Aldebaran, the main star...
- "tychê"...lisa I. Hau's Take
I will have to reread several times for many years I held a different understanding of "tychê"...for me meaning a realization of personal status and accepting same. Encyclopedia of World Biography on Polybios... The Greek historian Polybios (ca. 203-120...
- Eureka! Or "archimedes And The Golden Crown"
Wikipedia... This exclamation is most famously attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes; he reportedly proclaimed "Eureka!" when he stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose—he suddenly understood that the volume of...
- Egyptian Protractor
The architect Kha helped to build pharaohs’ tombs during the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BC. His own tomb was discovered intact in 1906 by archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in Deir-al-Medina, near the Valley of the Kings. Among Kha’s belongings were...
Philosophy
"Materials Science in Ancient Rome"
Rather interesting, especially the "colloidal crystals".
Two books, the “De Architectura” by Vitruvius and the “Naturalis Historia” by Pliny the Elder, give us a portrait of the Materials Science, that is, the knowledge of materials, in Rome at the beginning of the Empire. Here, I am reporting some very attractive contents that we can find in these books. The reader will see the discussion proposed in fours case studies: concretes, coatings, amorphous materials and colloidal crystals, to describe them in modern words.
Materials Science in Ancient Rome by Amelia Carolina Sparavigna
Pliny the Elder [Wikipedia]
De Architectura [Wikipedia]
Naturalis Historia [Wikipedia]
- Archaeoastronomy And Maria Reiche
Maria Reiche devoted her life to the study of the Nazca Lines, the most famous Peruvian geoglyphs. In fact, she was an archaeoastronomer that proposed for the Lines some interesting astronomical interpretations. We can appraise her approach using satellite...
- The Pleiades And Ancient Civilizations
Abstract:In the ancient Egypt seven goddesses, represented by seven cows, composed the celestial herd that provides the nourishment to her worshippers. This herd is observed in the sky as a group of stars, the Pleiades, close to Aldebaran, the main star...
- "tychê"...lisa I. Hau's Take
I will have to reread several times for many years I held a different understanding of "tychê"...for me meaning a realization of personal status and accepting same. Encyclopedia of World Biography on Polybios... The Greek historian Polybios (ca. 203-120...
- Eureka! Or "archimedes And The Golden Crown"
Wikipedia... This exclamation is most famously attributed to the ancient Greek scholar Archimedes; he reportedly proclaimed "Eureka!" when he stepped into a bath and noticed that the water level rose—he suddenly understood that the volume of...
- Egyptian Protractor
The architect Kha helped to build pharaohs’ tombs during the 18th dynasty, around 1400 BC. His own tomb was discovered intact in 1906 by archaeologist Ernesto Schiaparelli in Deir-al-Medina, near the Valley of the Kings. Among Kha’s belongings were...