Why did the Romans contribute almost nothing to science compared to other civilizations?

Why did the Romans contribute almost nothing to science compared to other civilizations?

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Why science when slavery gets the job done

What are those other societies? The Germanshits? The Celts? The Parthians?

Too busy getting other "civilizations" to Imperium & Chill with them

Because they didn't need to, they sucked up all the scientific qualities from the Greeks and thus the Roman Empire also incorporated scientists.

Roman Empire = Kirby

Prove me wrong, Veeky Forums

If you consider architectural technology to be science, the Romans contributed a lot.

Because they were too busy ruling the world to deal with this nerd shit, kiddo.

Modern construction technique didnt come to match the romans until the 19th century with steam machines.

Not really. The Greeks had the tech but not the manpower to do what the Romans did.

Kek. Nice try.

???
Romans were reinforcing the Alexandria harbor via underwater hydraulics that would not be matched until the Suez Canal.

But they did! A great deal of roman literature has been lost. I can't tell you how frustrating it is reading the works of roman contemporaries, and having them reference other authors in passing, because so many times their work didn't survive and we'll never be able to appreciate it.

The Romans benefited from ease of travel throughout the empire, and a lot of valuable information was compiled during these years, information which perhaps was not put to the test enough compared to post-enlightenment scientific rigor, but one cannot claim that a discovery - even if overtaken later - was not a discovery in the first place. Anything that gets us closer to the truth is scientific progress.

check out Gaius Plinius Secundus, who wrote the very first encyclopedia.
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio, author of the De Architectura - the oldest surviving work on architectural theory
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, author of another - for centuries - definitive work on nature, physics, meteorology, etc.

There are many more if you get into it. You will notice that the theme of a lot of these works are more moralistic. The inclusion of philosophy and stoicism and such into scientific works can make some people think that they weren't interested in science, but anyone with a brain see past societal values that history has moved past and see what strides the Romans made in advancing common understanding. What's a shame is that we lost so much that faggots like op ACTUALLY believe that the Roman civilization didn't contribute anything to science.

They have, you're just ignorant.

That's engineering.

Grekk Romans contributed a lot to science. Romans did contribute a lot to humanities.

>Greek

also the water supply for rome was higher than new York in the 80s(?)

I think you're mistaken OP. The Romans contributed a shit ton to Science, but they didn't contribute all that much to actual working technological innovation. No civilization prior to the modern period, and particularly one reliant on the institution of slavery, ever did much of that.

Other way around. In terms of sheer science output and innovation, the Romans were pretty shit tier in comparison to other empires. Pretty much most of their science was just what the Greeks had already invented, claimed, advanced. In terms of engineering feats and technological feats things such as their water systems of aqueducts, concrete, and buildings show they were competent in those fields.

Romans just stole the achievements of the Greeks. Rome to Greece is akin to Arabs to Persia.

You know, gothic architecture is very pretty, but much of the techniques used were already known to the romans, like buttress and shit.

>science

Scientia est nobis

And the greeks stole everything from the egyptians and persians.

who stole everything from black people

>who stole everything from reptilians

Who stole everything from the ayyliens.

>who stole everything from the greys

Who stole everything from god

Weren't they or the Greeks one of the first to use waterwheels in any significant number?

The Romans contributed greatly to the fields of engineering.

Romans and the West in general did contribute alot to science :)

>implying engineering isn't directly related to science

>Gothic architecture in the 1200s relies on flying buttresses to get huge internal spaces
>meanwhile in the 500s

>Byzantines
>Romans

Has there ever been a bigger case of denial than this?

It's still not science.

this has to be a serious case of baiting

>Justinian's Empire
>Still spoke Latin as their language of governance
>not Roman

Even the most harsh of historians at pegs the switch over to the Byzantine Empire as in the 700s, user.

Even the Franks saw through the whole Roman thing and called them Greeks.

Legislation was already in Greek at this point was it not?

Doesn't matter. Contributions to engineering mean contributions to science.

>finding practical ways to actually use our philosophical bullshit is irrelevant

Why do all of the theoretical sciences act like this?

I think you aren't wrong. According to Spengler, romans were the endgame of the Antic civilization. What he means under that there are always 3 stages of a civilization, an early/young period, a ripe, blossoming period where science and arts thrive, and a late imperialistic period, what is only about economy, warfare and cultural decline.

There is a reason why the Romans only created a lasting value in law and not literature, philosophy or arts. They were very cold, materialistic and earth-bound, mundane people.

Romans were the niggers of Europe

engineering, homie. plus, they were great copiers.

There is a water conduct in Rome built by the romans 2000 years ago and still working today.
You can't do things like that without deep understanding of the physical world.

False

But the Romans contributed, I mean, there's Plotinus, Porphyry, Philo of Larissa, Posidonius, Seneca, Cicero...

How about their architecture? Wait that is not science. Fuck OP is right...

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But there's Ptolemy and Hipparchus, they made great contributions to astronomy and mathematics.

All of whom basically were trained by Greeks and regurgitated Greek shit.

Th-There's St. Augustine, he was a great philosopher.

Greeks.
Berber.

Vitruvius

Oh look it's an "OP stands, goalposts in hand, daring the world to debate with him" episode

This sums it up pretty well.

History of Rome boi says that's been considered by historians and the conclusion seems to be that the science and philosophy of the romans is found in their military and engineering.

They more than made up for it with their engineering

Name 1 Roman invention

Cement.

>cement

crucifixion

Didn't they steal most of their military "discoveries"? They got the gladius from Iberians, chain mail from the Celts, etc. They did come up with better strategies for battle and logistics for the armies though.

yes, that's how technology evolves you idiot.

they got the gladius hispaniensis from the celtiberians, "gladius" just means sword.

But most of the people mentioned are actually Greeks.

the aquaduct

the vast majority of the Roman Empire or wasn't Roman either. They just provided a polity that allowed for international trade and development.

Sumeria used cement