Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel
Subtitle: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: February 15, 1995
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
ISBN-13: 9780060925819
First sentence: IN THE CENTURIES FOLLOWING THE MIDDLE Ages, thinkers of the European Enlightenment looked back on the previous period as a time "quiet as a dark of the night" when the world slumbered and man's history came to "a full stop"