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Pythagorean Theorem Found On Clay Tablet 1,000 Years Older Than Pythagoras (www.iflscience.com)
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[–] Moghul 2 points 7 months ago

I think there's also a change in perspective for the average person. I was watching premodernist on YouTube and he mentioned that people didn't used to think about technology and inventing/improving stuff all the time like we do - that there was a perception for a long time that life is what it is, and it had been that way for thousands of years and there was no reason to think it would be anything else.