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Posted on May 5, 2018May 4, 2018

“To use a crank, our tendons and muscles must relate themselves to the motion of galaxies and electrons.”

From Lynn White’s  “Medieval Technology and Social Change“, Chapter III, Section 2, “The Development of Machine Design” (114-5)   Students of applied mechanics are agreed that ‘the technical advance which…

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Posted on May 7, 2016

From Preface to “Medieval Technology and Social Change”, Lynn White Jr.

Voltaire to the contrary, history is a bag of tricks which the dead have played upon historians. The most remarkable of these illusions is the belief that the surviving written…

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Posted on November 24, 2015

Review of “Through A Distant Mirror Darkly”, by Mark Lord. SF Site 2014

I read Tim Severin’s The Brendan Voyage over the last few days – a wonderful adventure story and a stirring depiction of how medieval technology was adapted to the conditions it faced.…

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