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... classical writers could only list things they had heard of . They did not know about the Great Wall of China , or the huge dam at Ma'rib in Arabia , or the enormous Buddhist stupas of Ceylon . If they had , their lists might have been ...
... classical writers could only list things they had heard of . They did not know about the Great Wall of China , or the huge dam at Ma'rib in Arabia , or the enormous Buddhist stupas of Ceylon . If they had , their lists might have been ...
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... classical poliorcetists and to express their teach- ings in up - to - date language , for Greek had changed as much between Hellenistic and Byzantine times as English has changed since Shakespeare wrote . Heron's main source is Philon ...
... classical poliorcetists and to express their teach- ings in up - to - date language , for Greek had changed as much between Hellenistic and Byzantine times as English has changed since Shakespeare wrote . Heron's main source is Philon ...
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... classical literature that we possess today . Some classical writings had of course never disappeared from circulation , but many more were now ex- humed from monastic libraries or imported from the crum- bling Byzantine Empire . Hence ...
... classical literature that we possess today . Some classical writings had of course never disappeared from circulation , but many more were now ex- humed from monastic libraries or imported from the crum- bling Byzantine Empire . Hence ...
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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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