Technology And Science In The Industrializing Nations By Eric Dorn Brose
Technology and Science in the Industrializing Nations 1500-1914. Second Edition. By Eric Dorn Brose. Humanity Books, 2006.
In this book, author Eric Dorn Ambrose, survey’s the history of technology and science over four centuries beginning around 1500 and ending with the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The book contains three chapters beginning with “The Search for a New Atlantis”, followed by “Science and Technology in the World’s Workshop” and closing with “Lands of Unlimited Possibilities”. This book starts out as a history lesson of sea-faring, English travelers, who have become lost and find themselves encountering a city. It goes on to explain how the travelers are at first denied entrance to their new found city, however are …show more content…
Brose continues through the chapter with a long and drawn out history of various different scholars such as Francis Bacon, Aristotle, and Plato, to name a few. As he progresses further through chapter one, the relevance of the dry, boring, and relatively unneeded filler material begins to drag. Then, as though he realized no one would make it past the first ten pages of his book, the flood gates opened and the relevance of his previous explanations became apparent. Mr. Brose began to relate his previous references of the traveling Englishmen, Aristotle, and Plato. In the discussion and further reading he explains how these men advanced what could be understood as a “primitive” knowledge of the surrounding world and laid the groundwork for others to follow. Continuing on, Brose began to discuss such important events as the invention of the spinning wheel to produce yarn, the windmill and waterwheel which both were used as tools to process grain, process wood, and other various applications which are also used today. The explanations he has given are informative on the process of how these simple machines were ever important in fact that they helped lead advancement for
In this book, author Eric Dorn Ambrose, survey’s the history of technology and science over four centuries beginning around 1500 and ending with the outbreak of World War One in 1914. The book contains three chapters beginning with “The Search for a New Atlantis”, followed by “Science and Technology in the World’s Workshop” and closing with “Lands of Unlimited Possibilities”. This book starts out as a history lesson of sea-faring, English travelers, who have become lost and find themselves encountering a city. It goes on to explain how the travelers are at first denied entrance to their new found city, however are …show more content…
Brose continues through the chapter with a long and drawn out history of various different scholars such as Francis Bacon, Aristotle, and Plato, to name a few. As he progresses further through chapter one, the relevance of the dry, boring, and relatively unneeded filler material begins to drag. Then, as though he realized no one would make it past the first ten pages of his book, the flood gates opened and the relevance of his previous explanations became apparent. Mr. Brose began to relate his previous references of the traveling Englishmen, Aristotle, and Plato. In the discussion and further reading he explains how these men advanced what could be understood as a “primitive” knowledge of the surrounding world and laid the groundwork for others to follow. Continuing on, Brose began to discuss such important events as the invention of the spinning wheel to produce yarn, the windmill and waterwheel which both were used as tools to process grain, process wood, and other various applications which are also used today. The explanations he has given are informative on the process of how these simple machines were ever important in fact that they helped lead advancement for