Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-23 months agoHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?message-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1146
arrow-up1141message-squareHow likely do you think it is that there might have been a person in a the last 2000 years who solved one of life's great mysteries but never reported/recorded it?Daft_ish@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · edit-23 months agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareMrsDoyle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·3 months agoGo back even further - there were some very clever people people around in ancient times. Example: the Antikythera device. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism Who knows what they might have come up with? So much knowledge was lost to fire and flood and warfare over the centuries.
Go back even further - there were some very clever people people around in ancient times. Example: the Antikythera device. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
Who knows what they might have come up with? So much knowledge was lost to fire and flood and warfare over the centuries.