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... important elements in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century . Rotary motion permits a continuity in magni- tude and direction that is impossible with linear motion , which , in a machine , always involves reversals and changes ...
... important elements in the Industrial Revolution of the 18th century . Rotary motion permits a continuity in magni- tude and direction that is impossible with linear motion , which , in a machine , always involves reversals and changes ...
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... important as those for extensive measurement and more important than the other kinds of measurement considered above . Since the discovery of analytic geome- try in the 17th century , by René Descartes , the earliest important modern ...
... important as those for extensive measurement and more important than the other kinds of measurement considered above . Since the discovery of analytic geome- try in the 17th century , by René Descartes , the earliest important modern ...
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... important discov- eries of inscribed tablets with Sumerian texts in copies of archaeo- Old Babylonian date ( c . 1800 - c . 1600 BC ) at Nippur and logical Ur , the Sumerian and Akkadian texts of the 2nd and 1st discoveries millennia ...
... important discov- eries of inscribed tablets with Sumerian texts in copies of archaeo- Old Babylonian date ( c . 1800 - c . 1600 BC ) at Nippur and logical Ur , the Sumerian and Akkadian texts of the 2nd and 1st discoveries millennia ...
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