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... centuries . But , looked at over the whole stretch of recorded history , the advance of science has been erratic . It has leaped ahead in sudden spurts , shot off on pseudo - scientific tangents like astrology and alchemy , become ...
... centuries . But , looked at over the whole stretch of recorded history , the advance of science has been erratic . It has leaped ahead in sudden spurts , shot off on pseudo - scientific tangents like astrology and alchemy , become ...
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... centuries , and some of these medieval monopolies were not finally done away with until + XIX . The biggest medieval stride in the use of water power was not so much in the wheels themselves as in the uses to which they were put . In ...
... centuries , and some of these medieval monopolies were not finally done away with until + XIX . The biggest medieval stride in the use of water power was not so much in the wheels themselves as in the uses to which they were put . In ...
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... century machines . A few men , during the centuries following Leo- nardo's death , mined the manuscripts for ideas . One such was the mathematician Girolamo Cardano , whose father had been a friend of Leonardo . We cannot tell for sure ...
... century machines . A few men , during the centuries following Leo- nardo's death , mined the manuscripts for ideas . One such was the mathematician Girolamo Cardano , whose father had been a friend of Leonardo . We cannot tell for sure ...
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One The Coming of the Engineers | 1 |
Two The Egyptian Engineers | 18 |
Three The Mesopotamian Engineers | 46 |
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