On pre-modern technology and science
Subtitle: a volume of studies in honor of Lynn White, Jr.
By: edited by Bert S. Hall and Delno C. West.
Contributors: White, Lynn Townsend, 1907-; Hall, Bert S.; West, Delno C., 1936-
Series: Humana civilitas ;
Publisher: Undena Publications
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Malibu, Ca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
Subjects: White, Lynn Townsend, 1907-; Science, Renaissance.; Technology -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Hall, B. S. and West, D. C. Introduction : scholarly underdevelopment and the state of the field.; title: Hall, A. R. Guido's Texaurus, 1335.; title: Drake S. An agricultural economist of the late Renaissance.; title: Keller, A. G. A manuscript version of Jacques Besson's Book of machines, with his unpublished Principles of mechanics.; title: Needham, J. China's trebuchets, manned and counterweighted.; title: Glick, T. F. Cob walls revisited: the diffusion of tabby construction in the western Mediterranean world.; title: Blaine, B. B. The enigmatic water-mill.; title: Dresbeck, L. Winter climate and society in the northern Middle Ages: the technological impact.; title: Shelby, L. R. The "secret" of the medieval masons.; title: Funkenstein, A. Aristotle, imaginary experiments and the laws of motion.