> Egyptians during the Ptolemy era had knowledge comparable to the one we will acquire again 18th century
Citation needed, especially given the “comparable”.
The “dark age’s revisionism” afaik doesn’t claim that there was no loss of technical and philosophical knowledge (not that the average roman soldier would normally be a philosopher…), but that it’s limited to a few centuries. By the 12th and 13th century it’s very difficult to speak of dark ages.
Thisnlink is not the one that I had in mind - a Wikipedia link that talks specifically about blood circulation details explained in ancient Egyptian mummification texts rediscovered in Europe during that time - but in some sense it is more accurate[^1].
This sentence is coming from podestà Cante de' Gabrielli da Gubbio, i.e. the equivalent of the city's government, not from the Pope or a religious authority.
Yeah but the pope was the main power behind the ruling faction's coup at the time. It's like saying that the death squads in South America (financed and trained by US agencies in the context of Operation Condor) were not executing US orders.
Very dubious claim, especially given that there is absolutely nothing related to religion mentioned in Dante’s sentence above, and that both Dante and the podestà belonged to the same party (Guelfi), but to opposed factions.
Despite referring to the Pope or the Emperor, it is my understanding that the division between Guelfi and Ghibellini, or Guelfi Bianchi and Guelfi Neri, were almost exclusively based on political interests and being able to control power (see for example https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/ghibellini-e-guelfi-in-...)
Same in Italy (and probably most other EU countries); there's (about 25.000km of) roads that are maintained by a state agency; others are managed by a region, a province or a city.
There's also an entirely different agency that needs to take care of highways.
Yeah the UK is pretty similar. Devolution means Scotland and to a lesser extent Northern Ireland have some autonomy, but the big important roads are controlled by national government (albeit not necessarily the UK government) and your residential street is handled by much more local government, in my case the city where I live.
Actually Scotland bizarrely happens to have a road most similar to what most US folks would consider normal - a motorway (a multi-lane highway) named M8 going straight into the centre of a large city (Glasgow) on concrete stilts. This is not how the rest of the UK does it, but it so happens the M8 was conceived in that window of time where it was considered a good idea, some parts of my city were made in that era and I'm glad I don't live in them.
Batteries can be refurbished with new cells; a family member had a technician recently did this with an e-bike that was bought more than 10 years ago. In the process the cells chemistry was also changed, which means we have a new charger.
Another option for the same purpose is the Web Rendering Proxy by Tenox, which can also supports images/js by prerendering the page and serving and image map to the old browser: https://github.com/tenox7/wrp
Here you can see it on an external board: https://www.os2museum.com/wp/diskonchip/
I have a few thinclients with a socket directly on the mainboard for a DOC
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