Dirichlet-to-Neumann comments on Why was progress so slow in the past?

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Turns out ACOUP’s last week post is precisely about this question. https://​​acoup.blog/​​2022/​​08/​​26/​​collections-why-no-roman-industrial-revolution/​​

I swear half my comments on the Internet these days are just links to that blog...