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In the lecture, the speaker contends that the claim suggested in the reading passage is groundless. This casts doubt on the reading passage's assertion that Greek soldiers didn't attack using mirrors to burn Roman naval ships.
To begin with, the lecturer asserts that the claim suggested by recent many experts is groudless. What this means is that now, many materials to suppose what happened were lost, so it is difficult for them to research what happened. according to a certain play, parabolic mirror had been formed a long time before the battle. This is in contradictory to the reading's point that according to many experts, a parabolic mirror to burn ships had not been created at the battle.
In addition, the speaker points that Greek solider could produce a fire using mirrors. He points out that at that time, Greek solider was trained to aim simultaneously the same spot through mirrors, so they could target ship and produce fire. This is direct opposition to the reading passage's argument that Greek soliders could not simultaneously focus a single ship with multiple mirrors.
Lastly, the lecturer maintains that fires created using mirrors could burn the ships. He supports his idea by saying that Roman's ships was made up of flammable substances that rapidly lead big fires, so it was hard for Roman to extinguish fires. This rebuffs the reading's insistence that the ships could not be burned by small fires created through mirrors. |