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Author : Jean Gimpel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
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The energy resources of Europe and their development -- The agricultural revolution -- Mining the mineral wealth of Europe -- Environment and pollution -- labor conditions in three medieval industries -- Villard de Honnecourt : architect and engineer -- The mechanical clock : the key machine -- Reason, mathematics, and experimental science -- The end of an era.
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Author : Jean Gimpel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1981
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Author : Jean Gimpel
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992
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Author : Jean Gimpel
language : en
Publisher: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Release Date : 1976
The Medieval Machine written by Jean Gimpel and has been published by New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Business & Economics categories.
Fifty Years Of Medieval Technology And Social Change
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Author : Steven A. Walton
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-08-22
Fifty Years Of Medieval Technology And Social Change written by Steven A. Walton and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-08-22 with History categories.
This volume brings together a series of papers at Kalamazoo as well as some contributed papers inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of Lynn White Jr.’s, Medieval Technology and Social Change (1962), a slim study which catalyzed the study of technology in the Middle Ages in the English-speaking world. While the initial reviews and decades-long fortune of the volume have been varied, it is still in print and remains a touchstone of an idea and a time. The contributors to the volume, therefore, both investigate the book itself and its fate, and look at new research furthering and inspired by White’s work. The book opens with an introduction surveying White’s career, with a bibliography of his work, as well as some opening thoughts on the study of medieval technology in the last fifty years. Three papers then deal explicitly with the reception and longevity of his work and its impact on medieval studies more generally. Then five papers look at new cast studies areas where White’s work and approach has had a particular impact, namely, medieval technology studies and medieval rural/ ecological studies.
Medieval Robots
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Author : E. R. Truitt
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-06-11
Medieval Robots written by E. R. Truitt and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-11 with Computers categories.
Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, or silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct while others performed surveillance or discipline. Medieval Robots explores the forgotten history of real and imagined machines that captivated Europe from the ninth through the fourteenth centuries.
A Brief Illustrated History Of Machines And Mechanisms
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Author : Emilio Bautista Paz
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2010-08-02
A Brief Illustrated History Of Machines And Mechanisms written by Emilio Bautista Paz and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-02 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Machines have always gone hand-in-hand with the cultural development of m- kind throughout time. A book on the history of machines is nothing more than a specific way of bringing light to human events as a whole in order to highlight some significant milestones in the progress of knowledge by a complementary persp- tive into a general historical overview. This book is the result of common efforts and interests by several scholars, teachers, and students on subjects that are connected with the theory of machines and mechanisms. In fact, in this book there is a certain teaching aim in addition to a general historical view that is more addressed to the achievements by “homo faber” than to those by “homo sapiens”, since the proposed history survey has been developed with an engineering approach. The brevity of the text added to the fact that the authors are probably not com- tent to tackle historical studies with the necessary rigor, means the content of the book is inevitably incomplete, but it nevertheless attempts to fulfil three basic aims: First, it is hoped that this book may provide a stimulus to promote interest in the study of technical history within a mechanical engineering context. Few are the co- tries where anything significant is done in this area, which means there is a general lack of knowledge of this common cultural heritage.
Medieval Identity Machines
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Author : Jeffrey Jerome Cohen
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2003
Medieval Identity Machines written by Jeffrey Jerome Cohen and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Civilization, Medieval categories.
Machines Of The Mind
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Author : Katharine Breen
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2021-05-17
Machines Of The Mind written by Katharine Breen and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-17 with History categories.
"Katharine Breen challenges our understanding of how medieval authors received philosophical paradigms from antiquity in their construction and use of personification in their writings. She shows that our modern categories for this literary device (extreme realism versus extreme rhetoric, or novelistic versus allegorical characters) would've been unrecognizable to their medieval practitioners. Through new readings of key authors and works--including Prudentius's "Psychomachia," Langland's "Piers Plowman," Boethius's "Consolation of Philosophy," and Deguileville's "Pilgrimage of Human Life"--she finds that medieval writers accessed a richer, more fluid literary domain than modern critics have allowed. Breen identifies three different types of personification--Platonic, Aristotelian, and Prudentian--inherited from antiquity that both gave medieval writers a surprisingly varied spectrum with which to paint their characters, while bypassing the modern confusion of conflicting relationships between personifications and persons on the path connecting divine power and human frailty. Recalling Gregory the Great's phrase "machinae mentis" (machines of the mind), Breen demonstrates that medieval writers applied personification with utility and subtlety, much the same way that, within the category of hand-tools, an open-end wrench differs in function from a hex-key wrench or a socket wrench. It will be read by medievalists working at the crossroads of religion, philosophy, and literature, as well as scholars interested in character-making and gendered relationships among characters, readers, and texts beyond the Middle Ages"--
God Human Animal Machine
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Author : Meghan O'Gieblyn
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2022-07-12
God Human Animal Machine written by Meghan O'Gieblyn and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-12 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
A strikingly original exploration of what it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence, from the author of the critically-acclaimed Interior States. • "At times personal, at times philosophical, with a bracing mixture of openness and skepticism, it speaks thoughtfully and articulately to the most crucial issues awaiting our future." —Phillip Lopate “[A] truly fantastic book.”—Ezra Klein For most of human history the world was a magical and enchanted place ruled by forces beyond our understanding. The rise of science and Descartes's division of mind from world made materialism our ruling paradigm, in the process asking whether our own consciousness—i.e., souls—might be illusions. Now the inexorable rise of technology, with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control, and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding, the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. Meghan O'Gieblyn tackles this challenge with philosophical rigor, intellectual reach, essayistic verve, refreshing originality, and an ironic sense of contradiction. She draws deeply and sometimes humorously from her own personal experience as a formerly religious believer still haunted by questions of faith, and she serves as the best possible guide to navigating the territory we are all entering.