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Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
by Gies, Frances, and Geis, Joseph, and Geis, Frances
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Like New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060165901
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165901
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About This Item
HarperCollins Publishers, 1994. Hardcover. Like New/Fine. 6x1x8. Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, held that three medieval inventions--the magnetic compass, the printing press, and gunpowder--were of such significance that "the whole of antiquity has nothing equal to show. In their lively history of medieval technology, the Gies team writes of such advances as the heavy plow, the Gothic flying buttress, linen undergarments, water pumps, and the lateen sail. During the medieval millennium, they suggest, a great technological and social revolution occurred "with the disappearance of mass slavery, the shift to water- and wind-power, the introduction of the open-field system of agriculture, and the importation, adaptation, or invention of an array of devices, from the wheelbarrow to double-entry bookkeeping. Many of those inventions or adaptations, brought into Europe from China and the Middle East, have scarcely been improved on today.
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- Bookseller
- Michael Patrick McCarty, Bookseller (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- SKU2010025434
- Title
- Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
- Author
- Gies, Frances, and Geis, Joseph, and Geis, Frances
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0060165901
- ISBN 13
- 9780060165901
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1994
- Size
- 6x1x8
- X weight
- 17 oz
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