Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece 9780486144986

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Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
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"You have seen neglected oxbows, but what do you know of their making or of the training of a yoke of oxen?... What

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For more than forty years I have collected and read travel books... I marked passages that enthused me and so gathered a

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Drawing on letters, orations and disputations, this book argues that during the seventeenth century, the Amsterdam Athen

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In this wide-ranging and stimulating book, a leading authority on the history of medicine and science presents convincin

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This edition of our Aeroplane Collectors' Archive concentrates on early British fl ying-boat development from 1913,

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In New York’s Golden Age of Bridges, artist Antonio Masi’s paintings and Joan Marans Dim’s text encourage the understand

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