Winner of the 1970 Edelstein Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). A renowned medievalist joins a humanizing grace with insight in these studies in the history of technology and culture. The author shows that long before the Renaissance, technology was an integral and major activity of the West, fostered and shaped by other forms of culture and reciprocally affecting them.
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