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Illustration — Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis Metagenes was a man in ancient Crete, son of the Greek Cretan architect Chersiphron, and was also an architect himself. He was co-architect, along with his father, of the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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Metagenes

Moyens décrits par Vitruve dans "Les dix livres d'Architecture" pour transporter les pierres de tailles importantes

Vitruvius, Claude Perrault, Les dix livres d'Architecture, 1684 · https: dq=grue%20m%C3%A9canique hl=fr pg=PA306#v=onepage q f=false · Public domain

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Metagenes was born in 550 BC.
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Greece
Occupation
architect · inventor

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Illustration — Side view of a reconstructed model of the Metagenes method for moving heavy stones. Ancient Beit Shean, Scythopolis Metagenes was a man in ancient Crete, son of the Greek Cretan architect Chersiphron, and was also an architect himself. He was co-architect, along with his father, of the construction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

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