The engineering method

The impossible architecture of Étienne-Louis Boullée

Gödel’s incompleteness theorem

The cosmic distance ladder with Terence Tao: part one

Deconstructing the Colosseum

Musical marble machine

Precision as a state of mind

Primitive technology: tiled roof hut

Image by Diego Delso. Courtesy of Wikipedia

Many complex structures predate the scientific method. How?

‘What matters… is that it works.’

The archaeological site Göbekli Tepe, located in modern-day Türkiye and believed to have been built 10 to 12 millennia ago – some 6,000 years before Stonehenge in England – features circular rooms constructed with remarkable precision and aligned with one another. How were people who so clearly predated recorded........

© Aeon