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Pamela O. Long
How medieval and Renaissance technology shaped Mediterranean and European society across a millennium.
In Technology in Mediterranean and European Lands, 600-1600, Pamela O. Long explores the intricate web of technological…
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Essays explore the world of Michael of Rhodes, examining the historical context, the discovery of his manuscript, and Michael’s knowledge of mathematics, shipbuilding, navigation, and other topics.
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Openness, Secrecy, Authorship combines intellectual history with the history of science and technology to explore the culture of knowledge. From ancient Greece to Renaissance Europe, Pamela O.
Explores the influence of craftsmen and practitioners such as farmers and navigators in the development of the new sciences during the period in the title –
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Pamela O Long
Between the catastrophic flood of the Tiber River in 1557 and the death of the engineering pope Sixtus V in 1590, the city of Rome was transformed by intense activity…
Tra la catastrofica inondazione del Tevere del 1557 e la morte del papa ingegnere Sisto V nel 1590, la citta di Roma venne trasformata da un'intensa attivita edilizia e da…
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Pamela Long considers the ways in which different medieval cultures, from the Byzantine empire to northern Europe, adopted and transformed technologies according to their own needs. Long introduces readers to…
This work presents an overview of technology as intrinsic to the culture of late medieval and Renaissance Europe. It includes discussion of agriculture, textiles such as wool, crafts such as…
Luis Gomez, Pamela O Long
"The first English translation of Luis Gaomez's Latin treatise (1531) on the flooding of the Tiber River, including a history of the river and its floods and a discussion of…
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The first English translation of Luis Gomez's Latin treatise (1531) on the flooding of the Tiber River, including a history of the river and its floods . A humanist response…
