ANTIQUE ENGINEERING IN THE BYZANTINE WORLD.

This paper presents an overview of the extent to which the Byzantine Empire preserved the engineering traditions of the ancient world, passed them on to Islam and back to the West, and modifi ed them to meet its own requirements. After about A.D. 600, expensive works of civil engineering became rare...

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Publicado en:Late Antique Archaeology Vol. 4; no. 1; pp. 367 - 379
Autor principal: Lewis, Michael J. T.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Brill Academic Publishers 2008
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