Book ID: CBB901684104

Le macchine nel mondo antico: Dalle civiltà mesopotamiche a Roma imperiale (2019)

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Di Pasquale, Giovanni (Author)


Carocci Editore


Publication Date: 2019
Physical Details: 244 pp.
Language: Italian

L’antichità è immaginata come un’epoca di straordinaria fioritura artistica e architettonica, letteraria e filosofica. La presunta marginalità delle conoscenze scientifiche, l’incapacità di porre in proficua relazione scienza e tecnica, oltre all’ampia disponibilità di schiavi, hanno costituito i pilastri della resistentissima tesi della “stagnazione tecnologica” del mondo antico. Questo libro cerca di confutare tale ipotesi mettendo a frutto studi e ricerche degli ultimi anni. L’antichità, epoca in cui tutto venne ideato dal nulla, è caratterizzata dalla presenza di personaggi capaci di costruire e adoperare strumenti per portare a compimento sfide a lungo apparse come sogni impossibili. Vasche per la premitura delle uve, torchi, macine, gru, ruote idrauliche, dispositivi da guerra e per il teatro definiscono il paesaggio del Mediterraneo come un vero e proprio “paese delle macchine”. [Abstract translated by Google Translate: This is the abstract in English… Antiquity is imagined as an epoch of extraordinary artistic and architectural, literary and philosophical flourishing. The alleged marginality of scientific knowledge, the inability to put science and technology in a profitable relationship, as well as the wide availability of slaves, have been the pillars of the extremely resistant thesis of the "technological stagnation" of the ancient world. This book tries to refute this hypothesis by drawing on studies and research in recent years. Antiquity, an era in which everything was conceived from nothing, is characterized by the presence of characters capable of constructing and using tools to complete challenges that have long appeared as impossible dreams. Grape-pressing tanks, presses, grinders, cranes, water wheels, war and theater devices define the Mediterranean landscape as a true "machine country."]

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Authors & Contributors
Panichi, Silvia
Guichard, Luis Arturo
Hoz, María Paz de
Seubert, Philippe
Laurent Bricault
Gómez Espelosín, Francisco Javier
Concepts
Roman Empire
Geography
Interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
Medicine
Cartography
Technology
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Ancient
Medieval
4th century
2nd century
5th century
Renaissance
Places
Mediterranean region
Hellenistic world
Alexandria (Egypt)
Europe
Egypt
Middle and Near East
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