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This article investigates how modeling was used to facilitate technological processes in the ancient Greco-Roman world. Modeling is a loose term used here to encompass several related processes, all of which, in some fashion, project a desired outcome onto a current process through experiment, testing, simulation, or use of prototypes or proxies. I explore how models would have been used creatively or diagnostically in numerous technological fields such as monumental construction, water power, aqueduct design, and agricultural technologies.
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This page is a summary of: Models and Modeling in Roman Technology, December 2024, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1163/9789004714915_014.
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