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Watermill (Wikipedia)
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The Wikipedia article on the watermill, consulted for M.J.T. Lewis's dating of the vertical-wheeled mill to Ptolemaic Alexandria around 240 BC and for Vitruvius's first technical description of a watermill. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikimedia Foundation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermill
Source TypeReference Work
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Watermill (Wikipedia)
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This source backs 10 claims across the atlas. As facts: 6 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Inventions, 5 claims: 1 well-attested, 1 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 5 claims: 5 well-attested.
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