The Cyclotron

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Presented here is a comparison of the base of the Meru drawing with a plan for a cyclotron, a particle accelerator designed by Ernest O. Livermore in 1929 and developed in the early 1930s (coincident with America’s shift to a technologically based society).

The cyclotron was a necessary technology used in the splitting of the atom and the development of the A-bomb.

Glancing at the drawings it is easy to see why the scientist saw a similarity between the two designs. 

The question is:
What in the world is a blueprint for a particle accelerator doing in a 2nd century Chinese manuscript?!