Technology and Autonomous Mechanisms in the Mediterranean: From Ancient Greece to Byzantium
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The paper aims at presenting technology and automation advances in the ancient Greek World, offering evidence that feedback control as a discipline dates back more than twenty five centuries.
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تاریخ انتشار 2007