British cultural inferiority complex with France.

[Hulu]

Did descendants of Romans (ie Italians) and other Southerners not benefit from knowledge of Romans? As I said, Northerners joined the competition later, but started to climb up and took over.

They created that knowledge. The Northerners took over after Romans left the building.

[Universe]

They created that knowledge. The Northerners took over after Romans left the building.

If Southerners were more powerful and more knowledgable yet ended up in weaker position, what does that say about them? If Northerners could utilize Roman knowledge better, what does that tell us?

[Hulu]

If Southerners were more powerful and more knowledgable yet ended up in weaker position, what does that say about them? If Northerners could utilize Roman knowledge better, what does that tell us?

Ever heard of "been there, done that, don't wanna do it again"

[Universe]

By the way when I say Northerners, I mean Northwest Europeans (Brits, French, Dutch, Germans, Americans, Canadians, Austrialians etc).

[tk'es]

in the present days people from around the world keep enjoying the fruits of the anglo-saxon invention, contribution and discoveries, this statement a 'cultural inferiority complex of british' doesn't seem to have place

[Voskos]

in the present days people from around the world keep enjoying the fruits of the anglo-saxon invention, contribution and discoveries

Ah yes, the muzzies. Anglos' hugest fans along with indians.

[Cristiano viejo]

- Italian is spoken by 85 million people, English is spoken by 300+ million people. It is because English were historically more powerful, they could force their language on others, conquered more lands etc etc.

Good comparison. I hope you say the same when Spanish and English languages are compared.

- British empire was far larger than Italian "empire", that happened because English had better brains that allowed them to develop better technology to conquer others. Italians wished to conquer as much as English, but they were unable to.

The Mongol empire (part of your ancestors; the others would be the Gypsies) has been the second larger one, yet a total failure.

Larger means nothing. The Roman empire has been the most influential ever. FACT.

The British empire ruled MAAAAAAANY lands just some decades, specially in Africa. Maybe it was the largest, but in many places lasted few time.

- UK has nukes, Italy does not have nukes, so Italy is weak.

Which stupidity is this??? why are you so Gypo?? Pakistan and India (your true homeland), North Korea etc, also have nukes, what does that mean, tell us

Some countries (Spain for example) refused itself to have it. Own decision. It is not a matter of not knowing or of not being able to.

- UK is wealthier than Italy

Yes, in having Pakis and Indian rulers.

I say that as a neutral observer, I don't identify with either ethnicities. I'm just giving the credit where it's due.

You are a Gypsy from a Third World country and that is why you suck Anglo dick so hard.

They created that knowledge. The Northerners took over after Romans left the building.

Typical Anglo.

[Tannhauser]

jaja the OP reminded me of this:

[renaissance12]

You want to claim computer is an Italian invention? It isn't. Faggin worked for Fairchild, an American company founded by Americans. Why didn't Faggin work for an Italian company, why did he need to move to America?

Let's see wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History)

"The slide rule was invented around 1620–1630 by the English clergyman William Oughtred, shortly after the publication of the concept of the logarithm."

Shortly after what ?

Wikipedia is not a reliable source .. and neither are the stories that do not cite the sources or documents (usually kept in museums )..

Logarithm.

The people believe that logarithm were "invented" by the Scottish NAPIER..

But the truth is different.. much different..As usual anglo and americans like to appropriate others discovery..

Italian Luca Pacioli knew very well the logarithm 100 years before NAPIER was born..

All (but really all) known European (one could say Italian) mathematics... from equations to geometry, from algebra to trigonometry, from the first examples of probabilistic calculus to financial mathematics , accounting and even logarithms had been summarized for the first time in 1494 by Luca Pacioli (a Catholic "priest" .. also accused of being the first scientific plagiarist ) in a book published in VENICE - Summa de Arithmetica, Geometria, Proportioni et Proportionalita e della Divina Proportione - which was widely disseminated among the merchants of the time.. first in Venice (almost all Venetian Jews were traders and bankers .. the Jews in Venice and in its in land territory were "only" 2% of the population but Jewish traders were well over 10% of all traders in VENICE ) and its territories and later throughout Italy and Europe. That book was just enough for any person interested in mathematics to know everything there was to know about mathematics.


Recently a collector from Denmark has put an original copy of Luca Pacioli's book up for auction.

Starting price €1,500,000


https://astebolaffi.it/en/articles/u...i-luca-pacioli

"In the 1770s, Pierre Jaquet-Droz, a Swiss watchmaker, built a mechanical doll (automaton) that could write holding a quill pen. By switching the number and order of its internal wheels different letters, and hence different messages, could be produced."

And almost 300 earlier.. Leonardo da Vinci

HISTORY’S FIRST PROGRAMMABLE COMPUTER



Leonardo Da Vinci’s “mechanical lion” was the star attraction at a pageant in honor of the newly crowned King of France, Francois I.

According to G. P. Lomazzo, the Lion was presented to the King by Giuliano de’ Medici in Lyon, on July 12th, 1515. Made with a “wonderful artifice,” the Lion was set in motion:

“...it moved from its place in the hall and when it came to a halt its breast opened, and was full of lilies and flowers.”

This incredible exhibition symbolized the close relationship between the Medici, and the new King. The Lion is the symbol of Florence, and lilies are the fleurs-de-lis of France. The bond between the two was also linked through marriage as Giuliano’s wife, Philiberte of Savoy, was an aunt to the new King.

The “Lion” wasn’t Da Vinci’s first attempt at automata. His biographer, Charles Nicholl notes that Leonardo had previously produced drawings for various other automata, including a “mechanical Knight,” which:


...was capable of bending its legs, moving its arms and hands, and turning its head. Its mouth opened, and an automatic drum-roll within its mechanism enabled it to ‘talk’.

These mechanical drawings were exhibited in Milan, around 1495. NASA scientist, Mark Rosheim, constructed a working model of the “mechanical Knight” and claimed that Da Vinci’s “programmed carriage for automata” were:

“...the first known example in the story of civilization of the programmable computer.”

[renaissance12]

I knew that but I was hoping you, with your irritating chauvinistic style, to smash in the face of some irritating chauvisnit americans, -'muh computer muh computer'- all day long, this FACT.





'muh computer muh computer'

What does it mean "'muh computer muh computer" ????