The maze of ingenuity ideas and idealism in the development of technology

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pacey, Arnold (-)
Format: 991009659839006719
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press [1992]
Edition:Second edition
Subjects:
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Table of Contents:
  • Conté: The cathedral builders: european technical achivement between 1100 and 1280
  • A century of invention: 1250-1350
  • Mathematics and the arts: 1450-1600
  • The practical arts and the scientific revolution
  • Social ideals in technical change: german miners and english puritans, 1450-1650
  • The state and technical progress: 1660-1770
  • technology in the Industrial Revolution
  • Conflicting ideals in engineering