04-25-2009, 01:59 AM
Marsden, alas, is dead, and what if Alan misinterpreted the texts, or creatively interpreted them to suit his own purposes? Some of us think he takes too many liberties, and Randi is just in bringing up that "battle plate", as it shows that Alan is capable of strange paths. No ancient text, to the best of my knowledge, states the slider has to be exactly center of spring frame.
A reconstructed machine is supposed to give us an idea of what a Roman machine does, not what it can do if you create solutions to engineering problems that the ancients didn't pursue or "improve" upon techology as it may have existed 2000 years ago.
Can you get Alan or Len to come speak in their own voices? That would take this in a very interesting direction.
A reconstructed machine is supposed to give us an idea of what a Roman machine does, not what it can do if you create solutions to engineering problems that the ancients didn't pursue or "improve" upon techology as it may have existed 2000 years ago.
Can you get Alan or Len to come speak in their own voices? That would take this in a very interesting direction.
Dane Donato
Legio III Cyrenaica
Legio III Cyrenaica
