CLAS 1000 Chapter 16-17: 16: Roman Technology and Engineering & 17: Art and Architecture
9 Aug 2016
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Chapter #16: roman technology and engineering page #355-377: Introduction: modern engineers develop technology based on the investigation and application of scientific and mathematical principles. Meaning an artificial device for performing a task. Natural philosophy succeeded natural mythology and preceded natural science, although there is significant chronological overlap: the civil-engineering achievements in the roman world could not have succeeded without written transmission of information and technical drawings. Technology assimilated: rome grew from a humble city-state to a large territorial entity within a relatively short time. Italy, it was only natural that the romans employed the local traditional technologies and skills to modify the environment according to their own needs: the romans were introduced to the millennia-old cultures of greece, egypt, and. Mesopotamia, adopted and adapted their technical know-how, and applied it to promote the development of cities in the largely non-urban societies in the west and north (gaul, spain,
