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This chapter represents a sort of introduction to the ancient technology. All started with a design, so the early techniques used to represent what had to be built. Examples of planimetries and the relative building, starting from the IV Millennium B.C. are presented. Finally tables containing almost all the ancient Greek and Roman units are reported.
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Rossi, C., Russo, F. (2017). Representing and Measuring the Environment. In: Ancient Engineers' Inventions. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 33. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5_1
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