• vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org
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    17 小时前

    In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen. And the legal systems and the concepts of knowledge were not very good.

    And still the latter evolved to become better long before people started recording sounds to wax cylinders and shooting photos.

    • utopiah@lemmy.world
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      14 小时前

      In the Middle Ages people believed in creatures nobody had ever seen

      FWIW even centuries later, during Linneaus time, people were actually looking for unicorns.