Just because something bares a name doesn’t mean that person”invented” it. The math was always there and when you first realize how elegant it is broken in to 3 4 5 it makes sense that it has been used in architecture since we first started stacking rocks. You can make an amazing amount of structure with some string, a rock, and a couple straight sticks.
It’s reverse cultural appropriation!
Oh, and “bears” a name. :-)
We don’t give the ancients enough credit, I think.
In that old series, “In Search Of”, with Leonard Nimoy, everything was either a sacrificial altar or a star calendar.
The ancients were as creative as we flatter ourselves being. I think we may fail to understand some of the problems they faced.
“when you first realize how elegant it is broken in to 3 4 5 it makes sense”
Exactly what I was thinking. Some land owner noticed that 3 4 5 worked. Them some mathematician figured out why, and applied it to other problems. Today we know a lot more, but it doesn’t mean we are smarter. It means we are building on the knowledge of the smartest people, both past and present.
They probably developed it when they lived in Atlantis.