Joseph's Workbench: a pub with a story

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The discussion centers around a stained glass window in a pub converted from a church, depicting an angel announcing to Joseph about Mary's pregnancy, with a carpenter's bench and a vice in the background. The conversation raises questions about the historical accuracy of the tools shown, particularly whether female screw threads and related engineering concepts were known around 0 AD. It is noted that while Archimedes's screws were known, the presence of the vice and other tools may reflect the artist's contemporary knowledge rather than historical reality. The stained glass artwork likely represents the period of its creation, not the time of Jesus, indicating a blend of historical context and artistic interpretation.
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The other night I was in a pub that has been converted from a disused church, they have kept the stained glass windows. One of the windows depicts an angel telling Joseph, the good news, that his fiancée is up the duff, in the background is a carpenter's bench with a vice. I know that about 0 AD they would have known about screw threads from Archimedes's screws, but had they developed a female screw thread and all the engineering possibilities (as well as the vice) that this implies?
 
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Jobrag said:
The other night I was in a pub that has been converted from a disused church, they have kept the stained glass windows. One of the windows depicts an angel telling Joseph, the good news, that his fiancée is up the duff, in the background is a carpenter's bench with a vice. I know that about 0 AD they would have known about screw threads from Archimedes's screws, but had they developed a female screw thread and all the engineering possibilities (as well as the vice) that this implies?
The artist that made the design for the stained glass would most likely not have much historical knowledge, so would have just placed a tool that he was familiar with. Remember, the stained glass would depict knowledge from the time when the window was made, not the time of Jesus' birth.
 

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