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By David Deming

technological know-how is a residing, natural task, the which means and knowing of that have developed incrementally over human background. This booklet, the second one in a approximately chronological sequence, explores the evolution of technology from the advents of Christianity and Islam throughout the center a long time, focusing in particular at the historic courting among technology and faith. particular issues contain technological recommendations throughout the heart a while; Islamic technology; the Crusades; Gothic cathedrals; and the founding of Western universities. shut realization is given to such figures as Paul the Apostle, Hippolytus, Lactantius, Cyril of Alexandria, Hypatia, Cosmas Indicopleustes, and the Prophet Mohammed.

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