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| 1. |  € 153,00 | EAN-13: 9789004424081 Reid Phillip
The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600â1800 Continuity and Innovation in a Key Technology
| Edizione: | Brill, 2020 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 153,00 | | Descrizione | In The Merchant Ship in the British Atlantic, 1600â1800, Phillip Reid shows how ordinary commercial vessels reflected the risk management strategies of those who designed, built, bought, and sailed them. |  Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 2. | € 180,00 | EAN-13: 9789004416901 Guan Zengjian
Kao Gong Ji The Worldâs Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies
| Edizione: | Brill, 2020 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 180,00 | | Descrizione | Kao Gong Ji: The World's Oldest Encyclopaedia of Technologies by Guan Zengjian and Konrad Herrmann offers an English translation of China's first technological encyclopaedia. Commentaries show the extent to which the descriptions of the technologies correspond to archaeological findings. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 3. | € 178,00 | EAN-13: 9789004352711 Olshin Benjamin
Lost Knowledge The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories
| Edizione: | Brill, 2019 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 178,00 | | Descrizione | Lost Knowledge: The Concept of Vanished Technologies and Other Human Histories investigates early texts that speak of sophisticated technologies millennia ago that became obscured over time or were destroyed with the civilizations that had created them. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 4. | € 132,00 | EAN-13: 9789004289963 Männistö-Funk Tiina
Invisible Bicycle Parallel Histories and Different Timelines
| Edizione: | Brill, 2019 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 132,00 | | Descrizione | The Invisible Bicycle revisits and questions the existing timelines of bicycle history to create a more nuanced understanding of why and how the popularity of the bicycle and cycling has changed over time and varies in different locations. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 5. | € 166,00 | EAN-13: 9789004312401 Shulman Jaime-Chaim
A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century
| Edizione: | Brill, 2018 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 166,00 | | Descrizione | In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities, Jaime-Chaim Shulman offers an analysis of three engineering projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s â 1610s. Mainly external conditions, and not technology, affected the improvement achieved in the inhabitants' wellbeing. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 6. | € 222,00 | EAN-13: 9789004222199 Greenhalgh Michael
From the Romans to the Railways The Fate of Antiquities in Asia Minor
| Edizione: | Brill, 2013 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 222,00 | | Descrizione | Traces the fate of antiquities and technologies in Asia Minor, their degradation, and re-use, including the eventual export of treasures to competing Western museums, using technologies re-imported from the West - roads, railways, shipping - into a modernising Ottoman Empire. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 7. | € 255,00 | EAN-13: 9789004173576 Scott Anne
The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance
| Edizione: | Brill, 2009 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 255,00 | | Descrizione | Examining historical water use and ideology diachronically and cross regionally, this book reveals how religion, politics, science and social relationships transformed and were transformed by the manipulation of, uses of, and disputes over water in daily life, ceremonies, and literature. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 8. |  € 286,00 | EAN-13: 9789004177451 Wright G.R.H.
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 3: Construction (2 vols)
| Edizione: | Brill, 2009 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 286,00 | | Descrizione | Building construction is the subject of this third part of the Ancient Building Technology set dealing with the history of building and building materials). Beginning with the formulation of a project it goes on to discuss preliminary site surveying and setting out, followed by building site development and its attendant installations, and then examines the disposition of the various building materials in building construction from pre-history to the end of antiquity. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 9. | € 156,00 | EAN-13: 9789004166639 Talbert Richard J.A.
Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages Fresh Perspectives, New Methods
| Edizione: | Brill, 2008 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 156,00 | | Descrizione | There was no sharp break between classical and medieval map making. Contributions by thirteen scholars offer fresh insight that demonstrates continuity and adaptation over the long term. This work reflects current thinking in the history of cartography and opens new directions for the future. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 10. | € 227,00 | EAN-13: 9789004146495 Lucas Adam
Wind, Water, Work Ancient and Medieval Milling Technology
| Edizione: | Brill, 2006 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 227,00 | | Descrizione | This comparative empirical study of milling technology in the pre-modern period draws on the latest research in archaeology, history and sociology to illuminate the social and economic significance of milling and the extent to which the modern period is built on ancient and medieval foundations. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 11. |  € 156,00 | EAN-13: 9789004152366 Thurmond David
A Handbook of Food Processing in Classical Rome For Her Bounty No Winter
| Edizione: | Brill, 2006 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 156,00 | | Descrizione | A careful analysis of Roman food processes, including those for cereals, olive oil, wine, other plant products, animal products, and condiments. The work combines analysis of literary and archaeological evidence with that of traditional comparative practices and modern food science. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 12. |  € 385,00 | EAN-13: 9789004140073 Wright G.R.H.
Ancient Building Technology, Volume 2: Materials (2 vols)
| Edizione: | Brill, 2005 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 385,00 | | Descrizione | This résumé study deals with building material, which together with construction and structures, forms one of the three aspects of building, or equally one of the three factors which constitute the nature of a building. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 13. |  € 395,00 | EAN-13: 9789004136090 Lawton Bryan
Various and Ingenious Machines (2 vols.) Volume One: Power Generation and Transport / Volume Two: Manufacturing and Weapons Technology
| Edizione: | Brill, 2004 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 395,00 | | Descrizione | This two-volume work describes the pre-industrial history of mechanical engineering and covers power generation, transport, manufacturing, and weapons technology. Important items are discussed in each section and performance data are presented in easily understood graphical format using over 800 illustrations. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 14. |  € 373,00 | EAN-13: 9789004111233 Wikander Ãrjan
Handbook of Ancient Water Technology
| Edizione: | Brill, 2000 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 373,00 | | Descrizione | A magisterial handbook on water use and water technology in an area from Mesopotamia to the Atlantic Ocean, from the beginning of the Neolithic period up to ca. A.D. 600. Based on the archaeological and written evidence, it discusses the socio-economic background, irrigation and drainage, water supply, water in recreation (fountains, baths, etc.), larger hydraulic works (canals and sluices, dams, drainage), water-power, water legislation and the administration of water resources. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 15. | € 249,00 | EAN-13: 9789004106802 Squatriti Paolo
Working with Water in Medieval Europe Technology and Resource-Use
| Edizione: | Brill, 2000 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 249,00 | | Descrizione | This collection of studies on the ways water was used and manipulated in Europe between AD 500 and 1500 provides complete coverage of the technologies related to water in a vital period of technological development. Fishing, water power, irrigation, and domestic supply receive attention. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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| 16. | € 227,00 | EAN-13: 9789004105829 Astill Grenville
Medieval Farming and Technology The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe
| Edizione: | Brill, 1997 | | Collana: | Technology and Change in History |
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Indicativamente procurabile in 15-20 giorni lavorativi | | Info disponibilità | Rifornimento in corso | | Prezzo di acquisto | € 227,00 | | Descrizione | This book deals with the techniques and technology of agriculture in Europe in the period from 600 A.D. down to the 17th century. It focuses on Scandinavia, the British Isles, Northern Germany, the Low Countries and Northern France. The volume discusses methodological approaches and their limitations, the development of medieval agriculture in terms of the transmission of technological ideas, improvements in productivity, regional variations, social responses to agricultural technology, and those common trends that unite the Northwest European region. | Aggiungi al Carrello |
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