• doingless@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Larger boats had wheels to control their rudders though. It’s a historically valid expression.

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      10 months ago

      Rudder-equipped vessels were driven by a tiller until the 18th century.

      Source: naval historian

      Okay that’s a lie, I looked it up on wikipedia

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        Yeah probably 17th century - confirmed as early as 1703 but expected to have existed earlier. So I was definitely wrong. But how do we know it wasn’t invented thousands of years earlier and forgotten? But yeah, not in Jesus’ time.

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          Maybe Jesus invented it and forgot to write down the design? We’ll never know.

          (Does this guy know that 1703 was the 18th century?)