The Hole Left By

It's time to make a Veeky Forums approved version of this.

I'm accepting suggestions.

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What units is 'Scientific Advancement' measured in?

Barnetts

It's only for scale purposes (for now): if an epoch did twice the advancements of another it'll be represented twice as high.

Is the scale linear, logarithmic, or something else?

Nyes, Tysons, and Sagans.

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What did the Roman empire accomplish?

concrete

Start by defining units for "scientific advancement"

Currently it's just some made up bullshit

>if an epoch did twice the advancements of another
What does that mean??

Give an example of two time periods, one with twice the "advancement" of another.

Something else

arbitrary units (a.u.)

Greeks and Egyptians had concrete before that, in fact the concrete they had is better than what we use today. Roman were, however, responsible for making Christianity the official religion of Europe, which helped foster academic and intellectual development in monasteries and free public schooling, activities which eventually led to the enlightenment. So the diagram is wrong and biased. It also ignores the fact that it was pagan hordes that destroyed the Roman Empire in the West, Christianity up held it and continued on its traditions; minus the human sacrifices and barbarism.

>free public schooling

In which you could study THEOLOGY and related matters; there were only a couple dozen universities until the 15th century; to enter most of them you needed a permit from the church.

fedoras

>After the hole there will be a transhuman renaissance that will start with the level of technology that we have right now in 2016.

How does that work? You downgrade your technology and then you can turn yourself into a robot?

SOMEONE NUKE SILICON VALLEY NIGGAS, WE SINGULARITY NOW

Yes, but you also had know, math, philosophy, rhetoric grammar logic arts, languages and social sciences.

Exactly, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, music theory, grammar, logic, and rhetoric. With the Trivium being grammar, logic, and rhetoric.

Not like people majored in STEM back then.

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Most advances in Roman civilisation were in the social sciences and economics, as the Romans created the first great system of law, improved knowledge of ethics and logic, and created the best-structured military in the land. It is true that the prevalence of secular literature aided this
However, in terms of purely "hard" sciences such as mathematics, chemistry, and biology the Roman's achievement was little more than the kingdoms of the middle ages

>the Romans created the first great system of law
(You)

>philosophy, rhetoric, grammar, logic, languages

to better understand the world created by God as described in the Bible, to translate, discuss and interpret the Bible; to better separate the apocrypha from the canon, and so on; even math was plagued by numerology and kabballah; astronomy was mostly astrology with the world as the centre of the universe as written in the Bible

medicine? if you were ill and there wasn't any herb specifically mentioned to cure that disease in some 300 years old herbarium, they would have applied leeches and hoped for the best

for experimental science you have to wait the XVI century, and, guess what? it was called "magia naturale" lol

unibo.it/it/ateneo/chi-siamo/la-nostra-storia/luniversita-dal-xii-al-xx-secolo

So what? It still generated the modern concept of a research University which is why we have science you Fedora tipper.

/r/atheism

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Errors corrected.

Religion ruins everything again.

wait, were do you place the end of fossil fuels and the last phosphates to be used as fertilizers? can't we draw 2 separate lines, one for scientific advancements, the other for world population?

There was a graphic similar to this one that I think had more worth. It was "how hot a fire we were able to make". I haven't been able to find it ever since I first saw it.

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feynmanas

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>implying the 18th century wasn't the golden age of transcendental beauty