The Syracusia: Archimedes' Massive Sailing Ship
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Published 2021-06-04
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All Comments (21)
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Sounds like quite a cruise liner/battleship hybrid. "And for those of our patrons either dining on our al fresco deck or simply taking the air...if you look to your right, you might notice that we are currently assaulting the island of Malta."
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Syracusia: A functional battleship packed to the gunwales with art, marble and statuary. WH40K's Imperial Navy: heavy breathing
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Zeng He's fleet of "Chinese treasure ships" next? The story of their explorations are quite interesting and are great examples of ancient leviathans.
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Here is more historical maritime megaprojects that deserve an episode: - Ming treasure voyages (largest fleet in the world at the time) - Vasa (e.g. Gustavus Adolphus biggest blunder) the one of the biggest and most powerful ships of the era that sunk on its maiden voyage due to piss poor engineering. - Wyoming (schooner)the largest wooden ship ever built sunk due to poor engineering.
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Is there anything that Archimedes wasn't involved in? He was a genius like no other!
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Lead sheet was used as a protection against ship worm, in much the same way as copper was used in later years
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This was an exceptional video. I had never heard of this ship before! And I consider myself a history buff. A tip of the hat to Simon & Team.
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Archemedes was so clever that he invented the archemedes screw 200 years before he was born.
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The ship reads like what someone who plays lottery would fantasize: all the types of wood... ohoh.. and marble. Gotta have marble.
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Thank u! one of most complete video about Syracusia i ve seen on Youtube
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Giant ship! Ptolemy III, Egypt...wow, I just woke up from a nap and you sent me incredible information for my novel! Thanks...great video.
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That segue into the ad was so perfect. Well done, Simon.
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Hi John from WI. Thanks again for another great program !
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"Cuz this shit is crazy" I see blaze spreading out into his other channels!
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Love these stories from the ancient world!
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To give a modern idea of the size of this wooden vessel it would be equivalent to HMS Victory in Pirates of the Carrabian or 2 Black Pearls.
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It's amazing they gave the ship size in meters but cargo in some obsolete system...
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That would be an amazing ship wreck to discover and explore.
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not sure if you've covered this on your other channels, but a cool mega project you could cover is Operation Paperclip
