George Ovitt
Biographic Data
| ID | 1024327 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Ovitt |
| GIVEN NAMES | George |
| FAMILY NAME | Ovitt |
| SIGNATURE | OVITT G |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179
Appropriate Technology
On a sprawling hacienda just outside the southern Nicaraguan coastal town of San Juan del Sur, a lanky North American engineer and machinist named David Parkhurst has established a workshop for repairing windmills. In the 1930s, about 5,000 U.S.-made Chicago Motor Company windmills were constructed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to pump water for livestock. Today, more than half of these windmills are broken, victims of time and the U.S. economic b…
Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand
The Restoration of Perfection
Time, Science, and Society in China and the West
946 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE only 3—4 inches in diameter—hence trivial compared to the huge pro jectiles recovered in late medieval European sites. The tide was turning. Saltpeter was the key to it all, and yet it is treated almost incidentally in this volume. In part this is because, as Needham indicates, he has discussed it in volume 5, parts 2 and 4. But his discussion there focuses on the differentiation of saltpeter from other sa…
The Restoration of Perfection
Time, Science, and Society in China and the West
Science and Technology in Medieval Society
Horses, Oxen, and Technological Innovation
Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History by Sharon Gibbs, George Saliba (review)
Exhibit Review “A MATERIAL WORLD" AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY BRIAN HORRIGAN The first floor of the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in Washington, D.C., has been, at least since 1980, the most studied and remodeled space in the entire Smithsonian Institution. The apparent objectives of all the remodeling efforts were to improve the circulation patterns and to create a more engaging, welcoming environment in this area, so…
The Cultural Context of Western Technology
In seeking to understand why the West has been so receptive to the initiation and adaptation of technological change, the historian needs to consider the effects of the first great period of technological innovation-the Middle Ages. That the Middle Ages is the place to begin to search for the causes of this receptivity has not always been acknowledged. Beginning in the late 17th century, writers took an interest in the history of progress in the …
Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History
The Dearborn, Michigan, Meeting, October 17-20, 1985
577-593
Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages . Lawrence D. Roberts
Middle English Prose
Pseudo-Juanelo Turriano
Dawn of Modern Science
The Cultural Context of Western Technology
In seeking to understand why the West has been so receptive to the initiation and adaptation of technological change, the historian needs to consider the effects of the first great period of technological innovation-the Middle Ages. That the Middle Ages is the place to begin to search for the causes of this receptivity has not always been acknowledged. Beginning in the late 17th century, writers took an interest in the history of progress in the …
Science and Technology in Medieval Society
Dawn of Modern Science
Approaches to Nature in the Middle Ages . Lawrence D. Roberts
Middle English Prose
Pseudo-Juanelo Turriano
Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History by Sharon Gibbs, George Saliba (review)
Exhibit Review “A MATERIAL WORLD" AT THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AMERICAN HISTORY BRIAN HORRIGAN The first floor of the National Museum of American History (NMAH) in Washington, D.C., has been, at least since 1980, the most studied and remodeled space in the entire Smithsonian Institution. The apparent objectives of all the remodeling efforts were to improve the circulation patterns and to create a more engaging, welcoming environment in this area, so…
The Cultural Context of Western Technology
In seeking to understand why the West has been so receptive to the initiation and adaptation of technological change, the historian needs to consider the effects of the first great period of technological innovation-the Middle Ages. That the Middle Ages is the place to begin to search for the causes of this receptivity has not always been acknowledged. Beginning in the late 17th century, writers took an interest in the history of progress in the …
Planispheric Astrolabes from the National Museum of American History
The Dearborn, Michigan, Meeting, October 17-20, 1985
577-593
Science and Technology in Medieval Society
Horses, Oxen, and Technological Innovation
Time, Science, and Society in China and the West
946 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE only 3—4 inches in diameter—hence trivial compared to the huge pro jectiles recovered in late medieval European sites. The tide was turning. Saltpeter was the key to it all, and yet it is treated almost incidentally in this volume. In part this is because, as Needham indicates, he has discussed it in volume 5, parts 2 and 4. But his discussion there focuses on the differentiation of saltpeter from other sa…
The Restoration of Perfection
Time, Science, and Society in China and the West
Appropriate Technology
On a sprawling hacienda just outside the southern Nicaraguan coastal town of San Juan del Sur, a lanky North American engineer and machinist named David Parkhurst has established a workshop for repairing windmills. In the 1930s, about 5,000 U.S.-made Chicago Motor Company windmills were constructed on Nicaragua's Pacific coast to pump water for livestock. Today, more than half of these windmills are broken, victims of time and the U.S. economic b…
Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand
The Restoration of Perfection
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179
Sociology (13 works) · History (11 works) · Art history (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Classics (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Download (5 works)