Chapter 2
1. H. Wilson, People of the Pharaohs: From Peasant to Courtier (London: Michael O’Mara Books Limited, 1997), p. 80.
2. Edward Goldsmith and Nicholas Hildyard, ‘Traditional Irrigation in Mesopotamia’, in The Social and Environmental Effects of Large Dams, Volume 1 (Camelford: Wadebridge Ecological Centre, 1984).
3. David M. Burton, The History of Mathematics, An Introduction, sixth edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 2006), p. 28.
4. The remains of this clock-like mechanism were recovered by divers from an ancient ship wreck, near the Isle of Anitikythera, in the year 1901. This is the reason for this strange name. Even though it bears long inscriptions in Greek language, regarding its construction and operation, we don’t know what the ...
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