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The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages - Hardcover

Gimpel, Jean

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9780030146367: The Medieval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages
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ISBN 10: 0030146364 ISBN 13: 9780030146367
Publisher: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1976

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First edition. A good look at industry in the Middle Ages. Includes information on early mills, mining, the mechanical clock, mathematics and experimental science. Much information on paper and its manufacture in early paper mills. Illustrated. xi, 274 pages. 1976 , 8vo., cloth, dust jacket.. Rinehart and Winston.

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The Middle Ages, writes French scholar Jean Gimpel, saw an extraordinary flourishing of technological development throughout Europe. With the era came waterwheels and clock towers, nearly uniform machine parts and improvements in public hygiene, vaulting cathedrals and towering city walls, and a notion of spiritual and earthly progress that promised better things to come. In analyzing the growth of precision in measurement and of the experimental sciences, and in considering the careers of medieval geniuses such as the architect-inventor Villard de Honnecourt, Gimpel clearly conveys the intellectual excitement of the time. Sadly, it was undone by religious intolerance, brutal warfare, and the arrival of the plague as quickly as it rose.

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Publisher
Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Publication date
1976
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0030146364
ISBN 13 
9780030146367
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
274
Rating
  • 3.89 out of 5 stars
    330 ratings by Goodreads