Roman Engineering and Greek Science

This research paper is a study of Roman Engineering and Greek Science. This paper answers questions about Roman Engineering and Greek Science. My sources for this paper are books on the Roman Engineering and books on the Greek Science from the Harper College Library, the Arlington Heights Library and the Schaumburg Library. These sources are listed on the Works Cited page. Photocopies of the title pages of these books are included as attachments to this paper.

History has it that the ancient Roman engineering and Greek science have aided a great deal in informing contemporary engineering and science. The Romans stood out in the appliance of engineering and technology because they employed both mathematics and science. The merging of mathematics and science enabled the Romans to engineer structures and technologies that are still being viewed by the world as the watershed of the current crop of structural design and evolution of machinery and technology. On the other hand, contemporary science has its basic foundations in Greek science. The Greeks greatly contributed to the study of science through their critical breakthrough on the existence of nature (Lloyd 120). The Greek advancement of the study of nature made it possible for modern scientists to further the belief that science exists as a relationship between matter and other natural forces and laws and not as a result of the gods, as it had been previously thought. Through their advanced studies in science, the Greeks unearthed the truth that science was not in any way controlled or ordered by the subjective whims of the gods. This paper is aimed at comparing Greek science and Roman engineering.

Roman engineers occupied an enviable position in the field of engineering and sci...

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...n establishing equilibrium and asymmetry in their structural designs and constructions. Although both greatly depended on each other, they influenced the world immensely.

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