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Fountain
The fountain emerged wherever human engineering could force water to defy gravity—a demonstration that civilization had mastered hydraulics. The earli...
Pendentive dome
The pendentive emerged in 537 AD because the physics demanded it. The invention endures because the physics persists. Byzantine architects Anthemius o...