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Science and Technology in Homeric Epics [With CDROM]

Science and Technology in Homeric Epics [With CDROM]

Paipetis, S. a.

Hardcover

Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, Book 6

Literary CriticismTechnology & EngineeringSports General

ISBN10: 1402087837
ISBN13: 9781402087837
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 22 2008
Pages: 536
Weight: 2.35
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.40
Language: English

In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age.

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