Donald Hill
A History of Engineering
in Classical and Medieval Times
Routledge 1997
Stron XIV+263, format: 14x21 cm
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... a great joy to those of us who like to collect straightforwardJacts which organize and throw into relief seemingly unrelated pieces of information ... the hook is immensely important because it is historical, scientific, and encyclopedic in the best sense of these words.
Milton Lieberman
It is impossible to understand the cultures and achievements of the Greeks, Romans, Bvzantincs and Arabs, without knowing something of their technology. Rome, for example, made advances in many areas which were subsequently lost and not regained for more than a millennium.
This is a knowledgeable and lucid account of the wonderful triumphs and the limitations of ancient and medieval engineering. The author systematically describes what is known about the evolution of irrigation works, dams, bridges, roads, building construction, water and wind power, automata, and clocks, placing them in their social, geographical, and intellectual contexts.
Donald Hill held advanced degrees in engineering and Arabic studies. He was senior engineer for an international petrochemical company and is best known to scholars as translator of al-Jazari's Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices (written in 1 206).
Contents
List of Plates vi
List of Figures vii
Abbreviations xi
Acknowledgements xii
Preface xiii
1. Introduction 1
Part One: Civil Engineering
2. Irrigation and Water Supply 17
3. Dams 47
4. Bridges 61
5. Roads 76
6. Building Construction 98
7. Surveying 116
Part Two: Mechanical Engineering
8. Water-raising Machines 127
9. Power from Water and Wind 155
Part Three: Fine Technology
10. Instruments 183
11. Automata 199
12. Clocks 223 Bibliography 248 Index 254
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