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... Leonardo's hopeful anticipations of the future : but those who have lived during the last half century have experienced both the mechanical tri- umphs and the human terror they have generated , and we know , even better than Leonardo ...
... Leonardo's hopeful anticipations of the future : but those who have lived during the last half century have experienced both the mechanical tri- umphs and the human terror they have generated , and we know , even better than Leonardo ...
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... Leonardo's imaginative anticipations and internal conflicts had been gen- eral , the whole tempo of later mechanization might have been slower . Leonardo was proud of his status as an engineer : he even listed half a dozen engineers of ...
... Leonardo's imaginative anticipations and internal conflicts had been gen- eral , the whole tempo of later mechanization might have been slower . Leonardo was proud of his status as an engineer : he even listed half a dozen engineers of ...
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... Leonardo's contemporary , Nos- tradamus , may easily be dismissed : but Leonardo himself committed to paper even more remarkable forebodings of the world that science and mechanization would eventually bring into existence . In his ...
... Leonardo's contemporary , Nos- tradamus , may easily be dismissed : but Leonardo himself committed to paper even more remarkable forebodings of the world that science and mechanization would eventually bring into existence . In his ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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