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... invention . Though I have stressed the three key Greek inventions , because they have been under - rated , I must add various others derived from them , such as the auger , the pulley , the winch , and the screw - press for mechanically ...
... invention . Though I have stressed the three key Greek inventions , because they have been under - rated , I must add various others derived from them , such as the auger , the pulley , the winch , and the screw - press for mechanically ...
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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 ...
... 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 ...
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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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abstract achieved activities agriculture ancient animal anxiety Aurignacian became beginning Bertrand Gille brain Bronze Age bureaucracy Çatal Hüyük cave cave paintings century cities civilization collective command complex consciousness creature cultivation daily destruction divine domestication dream earliest economic effective effort Egypt Egyptian environment established esthetic evidence existence fact functions gods human machine hunter hunting images institution interpretation king kingship Kurt Goldstein labor language later Lower Egypt Magdalenian magic Marduk means megamachine ment merely mesolithic Mesopotamia military mind mode modern myth nature neolithic Oakes Ames observation once operations organization original paleolithic performed physical plants play possible practice primitive production pyramid of Djoser rational religion ritual sacred sacrifice Sargon of Akkad sexual significant social speech stone Sumer Sumerian survival symbolic technical thousand tion took tool-making traits turn village watermill weapons whole words York