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... invention widened out at an early period . The dovetail joint , for example , was an old Egyptian invention that kept sliding drawers - themselves another useful invention from falling apart . The wicker chair , in form like the modern ...
... invention widened out at an early period . The dovetail joint , for example , was an old Egyptian invention that kept sliding drawers - themselves another useful invention from falling apart . The wicker chair , in form like the modern ...
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... inventions as the instruments that played them . Even the most cursory historic survey of the arts reveals a fertility of invention in design unsurpassed by any utilitarian equivalent in engineering until the nineteenth century ; and ...
... inventions as the instruments that played them . Even the most cursory historic survey of the arts reveals a fertility of invention in design unsurpassed by any utilitarian equivalent in engineering until the nineteenth century ; and ...
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... inventions set the pace for dynamic trans- formations . The importance of spectacles was enormously advanced by the other great invention that came a few centuries later : the printing press and its perfection through the invention of ...
... inventions set the pace for dynamic trans- formations . The importance of spectacles was enormously advanced by the other great invention that came a few centuries later : the printing press and its perfection through the invention of ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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