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Title: Engineering in the Ancient World, Revised Edition by John G. Landels, J. G. Landels ISBN: 0-520-22782-4 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 04 September, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Ancient History and Engineering Come Together
Comment: Mr. Landels brings together two of the world's oldest academic endeavors, history and engineering. This is short volume is a quick read yet serves as a valuable reference tool. Landels provides a wonderful historic background for each piece of technology discussed in the book. The breadth of actual technolgy is not as great as one would want (unfortunately limited to ships, lifting devises, some seige engines and water procurement machines... yet to the author's credit the actual knowledge on complex technology of the ancient world is limited) but the technology that is covered is both well explained with many diagrams and placed into a historic perspective. To this reader, the last chapter serves as an invaluable reference for the simple fact the author provides short biographies of four ancient writers; Hero, Pliny the Elder, Frontinus and Virtuvius which leaves one starving for more knowlegde of aforementioned subjects. If you have any interest in the classics, history of the ancient world or the development of technology,.... please add this to your library.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fantastic effort
Comment: A very enlightening volume, although it occasionally left me behind and parts will have to be reread when I have looked up some mechanical engineering concepts- but this did not happen often enough to interrupt my enjoyment. A particularly fascinating section briefly discusses why the Greeks didn't quite get to concept of a the steam engine.
Very worthwhile and, sadly, all too brief.
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Title: Engineering in History by Richard Shelton Kirby, Richard Kirby ISBN: 0486264122 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 01 October, 1990 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The Ancient Engineers by Lyon Sprague De Camp ISBN: 0345320298 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 September, 1980 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: The Roman Engineers by L. A. Hamey, J. A. Hamey ISBN: 0521225116 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1981 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: Cathedral, Forge, and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages by Frances Gies, Joseph Gies ISBN: 0060925817 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 February, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ancient Inventions by Peter James, Nick Thorpe ISBN: 0345401026 Publisher: Ballantine Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.00 |
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