Author Description

Product Description Winner of the 1970 Edelstein Prize given by the Society for the History of Technology (SHOT). A renowned medievalist joins a humanizing grace with insight in these studies in the history of technology and culture. The author shows that long before the Renaissance, technology was an integral and major activity of the West, fostered and shaped by other forms of culture and reciprocally affecting them. Review "The essays in Lynn White's Machina ex Deo provide a keen examination of the larger cultural context out of which our science and technology evolve. His book—which includes the superb essay 'The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis'—is a model of concerned and elegantly literate scholarship for the general reader." — The Nation