On pre-modern technology and science : a volume of studies in honor of Lynn White, Jr / edited by Bert S. Hall and Delno C. West.

Malibu, Ca : Undena Publications, 1976.

233 pages, [1 leaf of plates : illustrations ; 29 cm.

Hall, B. S. and West, D. C. Introduction : scholarly underdevelopment and the state of the field.--Hall, A. R. Guido's Texaurus, 1335.--Drake S. An agricultural economist of the late Renaissance.--Keller, A. G. A manuscript version of Jacques Besson's Book of machines, with his unpublished Principles of mechanics.--Needham, J. China's trebuchets, manned and counterweighted.--Glick, T. F. Cob walls revisited: the diffusion of tabby construction in the western Mediterranean world.--Blaine, B. B. The enigmatic water-mill.--Dresbeck, L. Winter climate and society in the northern Middle Ages: the technological impact.--Shelby, L. R. The "secret" of the medieval masons.--Funkenstein, A. Aristotle, imaginary experiments and the laws of motion.

Includes bibliographic references