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RE: Innovating consensus and the rise of governance-as-a-service
Also, odd to bring up Ptolemy. It's easy to hold the opinion of him as 'box like thinking' when put next to Copernicus, Kepler or Galileo . But in the Almagest he all but invented Trigonometry and developed a system that explained all available observations at a time when conic sections were poorly understood. He also mentioned the heliocentric model as being simpler in the course of this book.
No I meant during the regression from ancient greece to the roman empire, so before the renaissance in western culture, and I don't question his intelligence, rather, his ability to express it through the lens of the legal system he lived in (for example, he understood heliocentrism, but still conformed to geocentrism as an expression of dominance culture where those who ruled him liked to view themselves as the center of the universe. )