Surveying instruments of Greece and Rome /
The Greeks and, especially, the Romans are famous for the heroic engineering of their aqueducts, tunnels and roads. They also measured the circumference of the earth and the heights of mountains with fair precision. This book presents new translations (from Greek, Latin, Arabic, Hebrew and Syriac) o...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2001
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| Edition: | 1st ed |
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