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The technique developed by the Chinese was not adopted in Europe until the 18th century when winnowing machines used a 'sail fan'. The rotary winnowing fan was exported to Europe, brought there by Dutch sailors between 1700 and 1720. Apparently, they had obtained them from the Dutch settlement of
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Batavia in Java, Dutch East Indies. The Swedes imported some from south China at about the same time and Jesuits had taken several to France from China by 1720. Until the beginning of the 18th century, no rotary winnowing fans existed in the West.
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in grain preparation. In its simplest form, it involves throwing the mixture into the air so that the wind blows away the lighter chaff, while the heavier grains fall back down for recovery. Techniques included using a winnowing fan (a shaped
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to walk away from Ithaca with an oar until a wayfarer tells him it is a winnowing fan (i.e., until Odysseus has come so far from the sea that people don't recognize oars), and there to build a shrine to Poseidon.
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In ancient China, the method was improved by mechanization with the development of the rotary winnowing fan, which used a cranked fan to produce the airstream. This was featured in
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progressed, the winnowing process was mechanized by the invention of additional winnowing machines, such as fanning mills.
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shaken to raise the chaff) or using a tool (a winnowing fork or shovel) on a pile of harvested grain.
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The Question of the Transmission of the Rotary Winnowing Fan from China to Europe: Some New Findings
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to the agricultural cycle, but mortal Greek babies too were laid in a winnowing-fan. In
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The winnowing-fan (λίκνον , also meaning a "cradle") featured in the rites accorded
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M.W.Thompson, The Rise of the Castle, (Cambridge University Press, 1991), 5–6.
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Münzenberg, Hessen. Chapel and Palas (G.Binding, Burg Münzenberg, 1962)
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This article is about the agricultural method. For other uses, see
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settlements such as one identified in Northumberland as
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Index

Winnower
Winnow (algorithm)
Winnowing (disambiguation)
Windrowing

Uttarakhand
India

Tamil Nadu
India

ancient Egyptian agriculturalists
chaff
grain
threshing
basket
Winnowing oar
Dionysus
Eleusinian Mysteries
Jane Ellen Harrison
Thyiades
Parnassus
Delphi
mystery religions
Callimachus
Adrasteia
Odyssey
Teiresias
Odysseus

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