History of Science
- May 17 - Archaeologist Valerios Stais identifies the Antikythera mechanism, now considered to be the oldest known analog computer.
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“... the history of the race, from infancy through its stages of barbarism, heathenism, civilization, and Christianity, is a process of suffering, as the lower principles of humanity are gradually subjected to the higher.”
—Catherine E. Beecher (1800–1878)
“The history of work has been, in part, the history of the worker’s body. Production depended on what the body could accomplish with strength and skill. Techniques that improve output have been driven by a general desire to decrease the pain of labor as well as by employers’ intentions to escape dependency upon that knowledge which only the sentient laboring body could provide.”
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“Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in blood!”
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