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The Maze of Ingenuity: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology
Here is a book that should immediately be put into paperback and placed in the hands of undergraduates every where and in all disciplines. Its subject matter ranges from the cathedral build ors of the Middle Ages to the prophets of systems analysis in our own century. Yet Dr. Pacey is nowhere superficial. His discussion of 'A century of invention:1250-1350' includes, for example, enexciting examination of the thesis That the weight-driven clock was not the product of monastic needs but was inspired by the imaginative desire to parallel the movements of the planets in a model here below. The author constantly stresses non-economic motivation in the development of technology and, in this respect, seems to share a point of view with that great historian of metallurgy, C. S. Smith, whose work he never cites. It is very refreshing, moreover, to see a history of technology that refers truly to the technolouy of Asia (China, India and Japan) as well as that of the West, and moves with confidence in discussing the Islamic contributions to mediaeval and renaissance technology. One chapter IS entitled 'The effects of mechanisation in Europe and Asia: trends in technology between 1810 and 1870.
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