Christos TZOTZIOY Georgiou tzot at sil-tec.gr
Thu Feb 10 18:17:07 EST 2005

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On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 03:08:11 GMT, rumours say that claird at lairds.us (Cameron
Laird) might have written:

[more snipping]

>With a little provocation, I can push the ideas of "mechanical"
>or "machine" referencing back at least to the Enlightenment, and
>arguably much farther.

Please ignore my earlier post, since it was mistakenly sent incomplete.

about "arguably much farther":

http://www.ancient-mysteries.com/greece2000/Main/Main2/Main3/Anti-Main/anti-main.html

and

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/battery2.html

and

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/steamengine2.html


Nice page, this:

http://www.smith.edu/hsc/museum/ancient_inventions/hsclist.htm
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I really should keep that in mind when talking with people, actually...

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