05-14-2008, 06:44 AM
Quote:You're all beginning to simplify the subject down to engineering. An engineer never lived in a social vacuum, and you're turning the thread towards the easy option and are beginning to ignore a wider picture.
Not my intention - I think I have pointed out many enough times that there were links between practical and theorethical knowledge. My main point is that there was not, until relatively recently, a great deal of systematic combination of the two.