- Engineering, History, Science, history, Science, ancient
This book is about those whose genius enabled the Egyptians to build their pyramids, the Phoenicians to cross stormy seas, the Romans to erect magnificent public buildings--that this carefully researched and fascinatingly written account of the advance of early technology has been written.Mr. de Camp describes the methods used by early irrigators, architects, and military engineers to build and maintain structures to serve their rulers' wants.
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Plot-driven, cool, warm and resolved.
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- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- resolvedopen-ended
- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- L. Sprague De Camp
- First published
- 1963
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books, Tandem, Doubleday
- Editions
- 20
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780262540087
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“Civilization, as we know it today, owes its existence to the engineers.”
Lyon Sprague de Camp — known as L. Sprague de Camp — was an American writer of science fiction, fantasy, non-fiction and biography. In a career spanning 60 years, he wrote over 100 books, including novels and works of non-fiction, including biographies of other fantasy authors. - Wikipedia
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