Re: Anachronisms in LOTR

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "A Tsar Is Born"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Aristotle was not the End of Greek science.
> 
> On the contrary, its greatest achievements (and greatest scientists and
> mathematicians) lay in the future, in Archimedes of Syracuse and in the many
> intellectuals of the Museion in Alexandria, who successfully measured the
> circumference of the earth, devised a steam engine, etc. Perhaps because
> they had slave power, they never sought practical applications (or practical
> tests) for many of their discoveries. And then know-nothing monks destroyed
> their secular academic culture. (And their rulers were far away, in Rome or
> with the legions on the frontiers, and had no interest in such things.)

and unfortunately those monks invented things like experimental science
and actually putting theory to test

what a way to waste time