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by Witold Rybczynski (Author) "THIS ALL STARTS with a telephone call from David Shipley, an editor at the New York Times..." (more)
Key Phrases: regulating screws, pole lathe, beam press, Middle Ages, Antikythera Mechanism, Medieval Housebook (more...)
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