Burning Mirror Essay

The passage claims whilst the Roman navy was evading Greek port, an ingenious weapon named "burning mirror" was used in order to defend the city of Syracuse & this successfully ended up in saving the city. However, on the contrary, lecturer challenges this claim and believes all the aforementioned reasons in the passage suspecting the existence of such a relentless devise are all sheer implausible.

Firstly, the lecture states a single huge copper mirror merely possible by high-tech advancement to have a precise parabolic curvature, is never required! Lecturer contents several minute mirrors, which are much easier to shape and produce due to existence of a number of great mathematicians in Greek in the related epoch, can result in the same outcome. Therefore, such a not far-fetched knowledge must have made production of the elaborate weapon absolutely feasible in practice too. …show more content…
According to the passage, the experiment was conducted on wood and that was the exact reason of raising such a misconception. Roman ships, to be water-proof, were mostly made of a highly ignitable material. A new experience on that specific material has underscores the fact that the time needed for inflammation is barely a matter of