Necessary Inventions by E. R. Truitt (.PDF)
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Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science by E. R. Truitt
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Overview: Necessary Inventions: Roger Bacon, the Middle Ages, and the Making of Modern Science examines all of these through the work of thirteenth-century philosopher Roger Bacon. The adoption of Arabic texts and ideas by Bacon helped configure his reputation in the early modern period as an experimental and technological visionary, revealing the ways in which invention and circulation inflect one another. A different project, on the mechanical clock and the codex, also takes up questions of technology and periodization, arguing that both need to be understood as chrono-technologies that were also central to the production and transmission of narratives of Christian universality.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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