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ACCOMPANYING this note are two windmill illustrations (Figs. 1 and 2), one from Ramelli's “Le diverse et artificiose Machine”, 1588 (Brit. Mus., 48, f. 15), and the other from the great Chinese Encyclopædia or “Ch'in Ting Ku Chin T'u Shu Chi Ch'eng”, vol. 32, sec. 245 (Brit. Mus., Oriental students' room). For the benefit of readers of NATURE who may not be familiar with the Chinese Encyclopædia, I may say that the only complete copy of the first edition outside China is in the British Museum, consisting of 750 bulky volumes fully illustrated, and that the work was completed about two hundred years ago.
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VOWLES, H. Ancient Windmills. Nature 129, 317 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/129317a0
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