Re: Elemental Physics

>>Only in this century has mankind achieved anything approaching what the
>>Greeks achieved.  They had invented an internal combustion engine,
>>practiced relatively advanced dentistry, surgery and mathematics, and, yes,
>>they did know that the earth revolved around the sun (as did the Chinese,
>>Babylonians, ancient Hebrews, Egyptians, Mayans, Hindus, Incans, Aztecs,
>>Celts - nearly everyone except the Christians knew about the earth
>>revolving about the sun).
>
>Slavery's one theory of why the scientific principles known in the Ancient
>world were not applied in practical terms,  but it certainly is not proven
>(or even accepted by a majority of historians), there are other factors,
>like their respect for ancient knowledge. Afterall, slaves were _not_
>cheap. Quite the opposite, so producing something which allows one to use
>fewer slaves to do the same job would actually save money.
>
>As for the Sun theory, your use of the terms "Christians" and "Hindus" here
>is incorrect,  you shouldn't mix identification of people by
>race/nationality with identification by religion in this example.  Some
>Ancient Greeks knew the sun revolved around the earth, but it didn't become
>the dominent interpretation for the mediterranean world. Aristotles
>interpretations did, and they were accepted long before Christianity became
>the dominent religion of the Greeks, Eygptians,Celts, and other
>Mediterranean/Northern European peoples.
>
Point taken - it was the educated among those peoples listed who knew that
the earth revolves around the sun and I was remiss in not stating so.