The Culture of Technology

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Books oí relaled interest The Maze oí Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology by Arnold Pacey "Here is a book that should immediately be put into paperback and placed in the hands of undergraduates everywhere and in all disciplines. Its subject matter ranges from the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages to the prophets of systems analysis in our own century. Vet Dr. Pacey is nowhere superficial It is very refreshing, moreover, to see a history of technology that refers truly to the technology of Asia (China, India, and japan), as weil as that of the West, and moves with confidence in discussing the Islamic contributions to mediaeval and renaissance technology." - Nature available in paperback The MIT Press Massachusetts Instiíute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History by Cyril Stanley Smith These essays celebrate the necessary unity between aesthetic curiosity and scientific and... Tovább

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Books oí relaled interest The Maze oí Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology by Arnold Pacey "Here is a book that should immediately be put into paperback and placed in the hands of undergraduates everywhere and in all disciplines. Its subject matter ranges from the cathedral builders of the Middle Ages to the prophets of systems analysis in our own century. Vet Dr. Pacey is nowhere superficial It is very refreshing, moreover, to see a history of technology that refers truly to the technology of Asia (China, India, and japan), as weil as that of the West, and moves with confidence in discussing the Islamic contributions to mediaeval and renaissance technology." - Nature available in paperback The MIT Press Massachusetts Instiíute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 A Search for Structure: Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History by Cyril Stanley Smith These essays celebrate the necessary unity between aesthetic curiosity and scientific and technological discovery. Drawing on his own experience as a metallurgist and his wide-ranging studies of ancient and modern artifacts, Cyril Smith offers an intriguing and generously illustrated exploration of the relationship between material structure ancl our sense of beauty. available in paperback From Art to Science: Seventy-Two Objects lllustrating the Nature of Discovery by Cyril Stanley Smith Vissza