Author: Brian Cotterell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First general account of the mechanics behind pre-industrial technology, combining the skills of an engineer and an archaeologist.
Mechanics of Pre-industrial Technology
Author: Brian Cotterell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First general account of the mechanics behind pre-industrial technology, combining the skills of an engineer and an archaeologist.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521428712
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
First general account of the mechanics behind pre-industrial technology, combining the skills of an engineer and an archaeologist.
Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology
Author: Colin Chant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134636199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou Among the technologies discussed are: irrigation, water transport, urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street lighting and public clocks.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134636199
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This, the first book in the series, explores cities from the earliest earth built settlements to the dawn of the industrial age exploring ancient, Medieval, early modern and renaissance cities. Among the cities examined are Uruk, Babylon, Thebes, Athens, Rome, Constantinople, Baghdad, Siena, Florence, Antwerp, London, Paris, Amsterdam, Mexico City, Timbuktu, Great Zimbabwe, Hangzhou, Beijing and Hankou Among the technologies discussed are: irrigation, water transport, urban public transport, aqueducts, building materials such as brick and Roman concrete, weaponry and fortifications, street lighting and public clocks.
Engineering the Pre-Industrial Age
Author: Dick Parry
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144561460X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Dick Parry looks at the engineering developments of the medieval age. The story of engineering in the pre-industrial age, when men built everything by hand, with limited tools and techniques.
Publisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 144561460X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Dick Parry looks at the engineering developments of the medieval age. The story of engineering in the pre-industrial age, when men built everything by hand, with limited tools and techniques.
Pre-Industrial Cities and Technology
Author: Colin Chant
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134636202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134636202
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
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Before the Industrial Revolution
Author: Carlo M. Cipolla
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this classic work Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in AD 1000 into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134877498
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In this classic work Cipolla explores the slow but complex process of development that transformed Europe from its relatively weak position in AD 1000 into the highly dynamic and powerful society of 1700.
History of Technology Volume 19
Author: Graham Hollister-Short
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350018805
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The technical problems confronting different societies and periods, and the measures taken to solve them form the concern of this annual collection of essays. Volumes contain technical articles ranging widely in subject, time and region, as well as general papers on the history of technology. In addition to dealing with the history of technical discovery and change, History of Technology also explores the relations of technology to other aspects of life -- social, cultural and economic -- and shows how technological development has shaped, and been shaped by, the society in which it occurred.
Ancient Metallurgy in the USSR
Author: Evgenil Nikolaevich Chernykh
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521252577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans and Carpathians. Metal producing centres were in these northern 'barbarian peripheral' regions rather than in the Near East and Asia Minor, areas traditionally associated with early classical civilization. Professor Chernykh describes successive periods of metallurgical activity in different regions: the Carpatho-Balkan Metallurgical Province of the Copper Age: the Circumpontic of the Early and Middle Bronze Age: and the Eurasian, European Caucasian, Central Asian and Irano-Afghan of the Late Bronze Age. He provides detailed information about the different groups of copper and bronze artefacts, their chemical composition, and their dispersion in time and space. He analyses the international metallurgical trade and division of labour and, finally, the collapse of the sociocultural systems in these metallurgical centres in the first millennium BC.
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521252577
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
One of the leading Soviet archaeologists describes the development of ancient mining and metallurgy in the northern half of Eurasia. While the first traces of metallurgical activity date from between the seventh and the sixth millennium BC, significant mining developed only in the fifth millennium BC, in the northern Balkans and Carpathians. Metal producing centres were in these northern 'barbarian peripheral' regions rather than in the Near East and Asia Minor, areas traditionally associated with early classical civilization. Professor Chernykh describes successive periods of metallurgical activity in different regions: the Carpatho-Balkan Metallurgical Province of the Copper Age: the Circumpontic of the Early and Middle Bronze Age: and the Eurasian, European Caucasian, Central Asian and Irano-Afghan of the Late Bronze Age. He provides detailed information about the different groups of copper and bronze artefacts, their chemical composition, and their dispersion in time and space. He analyses the international metallurgical trade and division of labour and, finally, the collapse of the sociocultural systems in these metallurgical centres in the first millennium BC.
The Age of the ΔΡΟΜΩΝ
Author: John Pryor
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon, and its relative, the Chelandion, from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047409930
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 838
Book Description
This volume examines the development and evolution of the war galley known as the Dromon, and its relative, the Chelandion, from first appearance in the sixth century until its supercession in the twelfth century by the Galea developed in the Latin West. Beginning as a small, fully-decked, monoreme galley, by the tenth century the Dromon had become a bireme, the pre-eminent war galley of the Mediterranean. The salient features of these ships were their two-banked oarage system, the spurs at their bows which replaced the ram of classical antiquity, their lateen sails, and their primary weapon: Greek Fire. The book contextualizes the technical characteristics of the ships within the operational history of Byzantine fleets, logistical problems of medieval naval warfare, and strategic objectives. Surviving Byzantine sources, especially tactical manuals, are subjected to close literary and philological analysis.
The Pre-industrial Cities and Technology Reader
Author: Colin Chant
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415200783
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Complied as a reference source for students, this Reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415200783
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Complied as a reference source for students, this Reader is divided into three main sections, presenting key readings on: Ancient Cities, Medieval and Early Modern Cities, and Pre-Industrial Cities in China and Africa.
Greek and Roman Technology
Author: Andrew N. Sherwood
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317402405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Among the topics covered are energy, basic mechanical devices, hydraulic engineering, household industry, medicine and health, transport and trade, and military technology. This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1,300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres, such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius, the agricultural treatises of Varro, Columella, and Cato, the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus, as well as the medical texts of Galen, Celsus, and the Hippocratic Corpus. Almost 100 line drawings, indexes of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and current bibliographies are included. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world, as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317402405
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 840
Book Description
In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Among the topics covered are energy, basic mechanical devices, hydraulic engineering, household industry, medicine and health, transport and trade, and military technology. This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1,300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres, such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius, the agricultural treatises of Varro, Columella, and Cato, the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus, as well as the medical texts of Galen, Celsus, and the Hippocratic Corpus. Almost 100 line drawings, indexes of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and current bibliographies are included. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world, as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society.