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... watermill . The original model for this invention might conceivably have come , by way of Alexander's armies , from ... water- mill as a practical invention , not a magical toy , came from Greece , the culture that had doggedly retained ...
... watermill . The original model for this invention might conceivably have come , by way of Alexander's armies , from ... water- mill as a practical invention , not a magical toy , came from Greece , the culture that had doggedly retained ...
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... watermills for sawing limestone in the Moselle valley . There is no reason to suppose , when the documentary evidence for the watermill's use on a great scale reappears in the eleventh century , that this was a fresh re - invention ...
... watermills for sawing limestone in the Moselle valley . There is no reason to suppose , when the documentary evidence for the watermill's use on a great scale reappears in the eleventh century , that this was a fresh re - invention ...
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Lewis Mumford. watermill , the windmill , the magnifying glass , the printing press , the mechanical clock . On those inventions all the later technical advances , dif- ferent in kind as well as in power from those of earlier industrial ...
Lewis Mumford. watermill , the windmill , the magnifying glass , the printing press , the mechanical clock . On those inventions all the later technical advances , dif- ferent in kind as well as in power from those of earlier industrial ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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