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Who first thought of liquid rock? And the Roman arch, and Roman roads all over Europe? Well, you guessed it! The Romans did 20 centuries ago, the finest engineers the world has known until now.
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Phipps, C. (2016). Rome. In: No Wonder You Wonder!. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21680-5_9
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