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Author : Lynn Townsend White
Release : 1978-01-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Medieval Religion and Technology by : Lynn Townsend White
Download or read book Medieval Religion and Technology written by Lynn Townsend White. This book was released on 1978-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays fra 1940-1975, med udgangspunkt i middelalderens teknologiske frembringelser, og videnskabsmænd.
Author : Lynn White
Release : 2024-07-26
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Medieval Religion and Technology by : Lynn White
Download or read book Medieval Religion and Technology written by Lynn White. This book was released on 2024-07-26. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of nineteen essays, their previous publication dates scattered over a long career, is designed to indicate the velocity and variety of the inventiveness visible in medieval engineering and also to explore the relation of technology to the values of western medieval culture. During the Middle Ages, values and the motivations springing from them—even those underlying many activities that to us today seem purely secular—were often expressed in religious presuppositions. Hence this book's title. The conceptual unity of the collection is brought forth in the author's Introduction, "The Study of Medieval Technology, 1924–1974: Personal Reflections." This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1978 and reissued as a paperback in 1986.
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Release : 1978
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Download or read book Medieval religion and technology written by Lynn Townsend White. This book was released on 1978. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Anna Götlind
Release : 1993
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Technology and Religion in Medieval Sweden by : Anna Götlind
Download or read book Technology and Religion in Medieval Sweden written by Anna Götlind. This book was released on 1993. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David F. Noble
Release : 2013-01-23
Genre : Technology & Engineering
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Book Synopsis The Religion of Technology by : David F. Noble
Download or read book The Religion of Technology written by David F. Noble. This book was released on 2013-01-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing against the widely held belief that technology and religion are at war with each other, David F. Noble's groundbreaking book reveals the religious roots and spirit of Western technology. It links the technological enthusiasms of the present day with the ancient and enduring Christian expectation of recovering humankind's lost divinity. Covering a period of a thousand years, Noble traces the evolution of the Western idea of technological development from the ninth century, when the useful arts became connected to the concept of redemption, up to the twentieth, when humans began to exercise God-like knowledge and powers. Noble describes how technological advance accelerated at the very point when it was invested with spiritual significance. By examining the imaginings of monks, explorers, magi, scientists, Freemasons, and engineers, this historical account brings to light an other-worldly inspiration behind the apparently worldly endeavors by which we habitually define Western civilization. Thus we see that Isaac Newton devoted his lifetime to the interpretation of prophecy. Joseph Priestley was the discoverer of oxygen and a founder of Unitarianism. Freemasons were early advocates of industrialization and the fathers of the engineering profession. Wernher von Braun saw spaceflight as a millenarian new beginning for humankind. The narrative moves into our own time through the technological enterprises of the last half of the twentieth century: nuclear weapons, manned space exploration, Artificial Intelligence, and genetic engineering. Here the book suggests that the convergence of technology and religion has outlived its usefulness, that though it once contributed to human well-being, it has now become a threat to our survival. Viewed at the dawn of the new millennium, the technological means upon which we have come to rely for the preservation and enlargement of our lives betray an increasing impatience with life and a disdainful disregard for mortal needs. David F. Noble thus contends that we must collectively strive to disabuse ourselves of the inherited religion of technology and begin rigorously to re-examine our enchantment with unregulated technological advance.
