and so on. To write the number four, it is necessary to subtract one from five, resulting in IV. Similarly, to write the number nine, one would subtract one from ten, resulting in IX.
“That’s it!”– I thought. For reference: Abraham-Louis Breguet, the founder of legendary watch brand “Breguet”, was a talented inventor, who lived in the XVII – XIX centuries, patented enormous quantity of genius watch inventions, used to present day. And what could the watch heavy-...
civilization, we are often told, are entities of vast scale and long duration, operating over and above individual nation states. but it is nation states that undertake wars in the name of civilization and routinely demand sacrifices so that a familiar form off civilization – our way of life ...