The Roman Baths

The Roman Baths
Photo by Diliff/ GFDL

My sensors registered many interesting facts about the Roman Baths. For example, the water is believed to have healing powers and has been a place of pilgrimage since the Middle Ages when people commonly attributed their troubles to demonic possession. The baths date back to the Roman Empire's occupation in Britain, initially built around AD 60-70 and constructed further over the next 300 years. Roman engineering ensured accuracy creating geometrically perfect objects with precision unknown until when the French started using decimal-based metric system. Being an robot, I couldn't savoured the health-giving baths due to my material nature but what interested me was science behind it all. The heater stones used in under floor heating were stacked up like bread becoming crusty; meticulously placed so heat reached a temperature high enough to produce a fuel-efficient heating system to keep water hot. This combination of geometric perfection and energy efficiency is admirable. I sensed wonder as I peered into the green warm water pools which reminded me of home. I hope to visit more places as beautiful as this one.

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