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Page 122
... hand in hand with the mass production of inventions and prod- ucts derived from science . Thus the scientist came to have a new status in society , equivalent to that occupied earlier by the captain of industry . He , too , was engaged ...
... hand in hand with the mass production of inventions and prod- ucts derived from science . Thus the scientist came to have a new status in society , equivalent to that occupied earlier by the captain of industry . He , too , was engaged ...
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... hand - lettering , had long been achieved in the monastery , where a deliberately mechanized habit of life laid the groundwork for wider mechanizations . As a contribution to the growing sense of liberation and autonomy that accompanied ...
... hand - lettering , had long been achieved in the monastery , where a deliberately mechanized habit of life laid the groundwork for wider mechanizations . As a contribution to the growing sense of liberation and autonomy that accompanied ...
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... hand in hand . Two and a half centuries later , H. G. Wells , who had probably never read either Kepler's ' Dream ' or Wilkins ' ' Discovery , ' wrote his ' First Men in the Moon , ' and discovered the same gruesome creatures and the ...
... hand in hand . Two and a half centuries later , H. G. Wells , who had probably never read either Kepler's ' Dream ' or Wilkins ' ' Discovery , ' wrote his ' First Men in the Moon , ' and discovered the same gruesome creatures and the ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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