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Autore |
Friedel Robert D (Robert Douglas), <1950-> |
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Titolo |
A culture of improvement : technology and the Western millennium / / Robert Friedel |
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Cambridge, MA, : MIT Press, c2007 |
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ISBN |
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1-282-09864-0 |
9786612098642 |
0-262-27323-3 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Civilization, Western |
Intellectual life |
Technological innovations - History |
Technology and civilization |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [545]-568) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Technology and Improvement -- 2 Plows and Horses -- 3 Power -- 4 Buildings for God and Man -- 5 Transforming Matter -- 6 Light and Time -- 7 Types of Change -- 8 Earth, Fire, Water, and Air -- 9 Improving Knowledge -- 10 Improvers and Engineers -- 11 Raising Fire -- 12 Fabrics of Change -- 13 Artisans, Philosophes, and Entrepreneurs -- 14 Airs and Lightning -- 15 Mobility -- 16 Messages -- 17 Engineering Emerges -- 18 Stuff, Reality, and Dreams -- 19 The Improvement of Violence -- 20 Learning -- 21 Dynamics -- 22 Land and Life -- 23 Scale -- 24 The Corruption of Improvement -- 25 Networks -- 26 Improvement's End -- Notes -- Index. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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How technological change in the West has been driven by the pursuit of improvement: a history of technology, from plows and printing presses to penicillin, the atomic bomb, and the computer. |
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