TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pacey, Arnold
TI  - Maze of ingenuity : ideas and idealism in the development of technology 
SN  - 026266075X
U1  - 609 
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Cambridge 
PB  - MIT Press
KW  -  
N1  - CONTENTS
Preface vii
1	The Cathedral Builders: European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280 1
2	A Century of Invention: 1250-1350 29
3	Mathematics and the Arts: 1450—1600 56
4	The Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution 80
5	Social Ideals in Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650     103
6	The State and Technical Progress: 1660—1770 133
7	Technology in the Industrial Revolution 159
8	Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America and Britain, 1790-1870 190
9	Institutionalizing Technical Ideals, 1820—1920 216
10	Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology 242
Notes 267
Select Bibliography 287 
Index 293

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