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It was as early as 4,000 B.C. that the Sumerians cultivated a high level civilization in a region of Mesopotamia which at present belongs to Iraq. The name Mesopotamia, meaning “between the rivers”, [1.1] indicates that this area was of great fertility enjoying natural advantages from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers. They invented and developed the cuneiform script which is today considered to have been man’s first usable writing.
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Iizuka, K. (1987). History of Optics. In: Engineering Optics. Springer Series in Optical Sciences, vol 35. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-36808-3_1
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