Re: big ships (was Re: Cos-B: 30 Years On...)
- From: Monte Davis <monte.davis@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 21:15:09 GMT
Pat Flannery <flanner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>All the parts of the puzzle are there, and no one is bothering to put
>them together.
Social and cultural parts were missing -- I'd say a tradition of
patronage a la Leonardo and his dukes (the Chinese elite more readily
supported poet-mandarins and artisans than, uh, tinkerers), and/or a
matrix to offer reward$ for making many copie$ of ingenious devices.
.
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