10-22-2006, 02:55 PM
Uhmmm..., it's just an ergonomy matter not a cultural matter: the human hand is the same since a lot and I just find strange that for about all the history of the roman army the grips and other items too were so thin and small.
That's a recent problem too. For example, take a 1920 bike and take one of our times, it's not only a matter of materials and culture, it's just a matter of people that suddenly asked themselves how they could improve the comfort of the objects they used, so they simply started to study the problem to go rational.
Designers are those people and since the Bauhaus foundation, things were always better. In few years, about 80, everything of what we use is much more comfortable than ever... Why no roman guys (and not only Romans) asked themselves simply the same questions? How should you design a 100% effective sword right now? Surely with a better grip, because you simply don't want suffer more than the necessary...
Vale,
That's a recent problem too. For example, take a 1920 bike and take one of our times, it's not only a matter of materials and culture, it's just a matter of people that suddenly asked themselves how they could improve the comfort of the objects they used, so they simply started to study the problem to go rational.
Designers are those people and since the Bauhaus foundation, things were always better. In few years, about 80, everything of what we use is much more comfortable than ever... Why no roman guys (and not only Romans) asked themselves simply the same questions? How should you design a 100% effective sword right now? Surely with a better grip, because you simply don't want suffer more than the necessary...
Vale,
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... Tu modo nascenti puero, quo ferrea primum
desinet ac toto surget Gens Aurea mundo,
casta faue Lucina; tuus iam regnat Apollo ...
Vergilius, Bucolicae, ecloga IV, 4-10
