Before the Lost Arts and Other Lectures (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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But other explorations have proved the existence of more numerous and more wonderful tools and even machines at a much more remote period.

It is well known that the beginnings of science were in the cells of the alchemists and astrologers. The most ancient implements and machines referred to are found in connection with more ancient cells, where they were wrought centuries before Venice worked in glass or Egypt built her pyramids.

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