Science! Alchemy?
Nov. 24th, 2006 11:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolven7LUXT - [Filament]--- Don't you ever, EVER talk bad about alchemy to me, again, you hear me?
Kick ass.
"In this case we find that the properties of a material which we regard as modern and high-tech, in this case mullite, were being exploited centuries ago by craftsmen who had a limited scientific understanding of their products but a great deal of skill and ingenuity."
I would say they had quite a Good deal of scientific understanding of their product, if they were able to fucking make it. Molecular compunds do not a science make, and this is what I mean when I talk about concepts, and using them as tools. They had certain concepts and, with them, they were able to make mullite. Something we didn't re-learn for a few hundred years.
I'd say that's pretty fucking smart. We simply have a different set of concepts, now. But we can translate, can't we? I think we can.
Kick ass.
"In this case we find that the properties of a material which we regard as modern and high-tech, in this case mullite, were being exploited centuries ago by craftsmen who had a limited scientific understanding of their products but a great deal of skill and ingenuity."
I would say they had quite a Good deal of scientific understanding of their product, if they were able to fucking make it. Molecular compunds do not a science make, and this is what I mean when I talk about concepts, and using them as tools. They had certain concepts and, with them, they were able to make mullite. Something we didn't re-learn for a few hundred years.
I'd say that's pretty fucking smart. We simply have a different set of concepts, now. But we can translate, can't we? I think we can.
