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A fascinating, innovative, and optimistic look at how humanity and technology join to produce increasing opportunities in the world and how technology can give our lives greater meaning.

What technology wants / Kevin Kelly.

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Hommes et techniques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance / Marie-Claire Amouretti, Georges Comet.

viii, 342 pages, 32 pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm

The myth of the machine : technics and human development / Lewis Mumford.

Marina Warner (op. cit.) suggests that the Lustucru ('L'eusses-tu cru?' - Would you have believed it?) satires in mid-seventeenth century France can be traced back to a reaction against emergent feminism in the Paris salons. Writers and poets like Madeleine de Scudéry were also satirized by Molière in 'Les femmes savantes' and 'Les précieuses ridicules'. This aspect, as we see here, was condensed with other older tropes such as the gossip and the nag
This version is different in many details from that of Wellcome Library catalogue number 15966i. However, the differences are largely of style rather than content. There is a Medusa's head on the elaborate frame of the lower text, where there is nothing in the other print

The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

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Medieval technology and social change / Lynn White, Jr.

History and technology.

Oxford paperbacks

vii, 194 pages, 10 leaves of plates : illustrations ; 20 cm.

Medieval technology and social change / by Lynn White, Jr.

Homo faber : technology and culture in India, China, and the West from 1500 to the present day / by Claude Alphonso Alvares.

Popularisation of science and technology education : some case studies from Africa / edited by Mike Savage and Prem Naidoo.

The demonstrations in the courtyard are the same as in Wellcome Library nos. 26173i and 26182i. However, the background is substantially different. As well as the busts lining the galleries and the architectural activity, there is a passage on the left which leads to large bookshelves labelled 'Theologia'

1 print : line engraving with etching ; image 29.2 x 36.8 cm

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What technology wants / Kevin Kelly.

Hommes et techniques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance / Marie-Claire Amouretti, Georges Comet.

The myth of the machine : technics and human development / Lewis Mumford.

The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

Medieval technology and social change / Lynn White, Jr.

History and technology.

Medieval technology and social change / by Lynn White, Jr.

Homo faber : technology and culture in India, China, and the West from 1500 to the present day / by Claude Alphonso Alvares.

Popularisation of science and technology education : some case studies from Africa / edited by Mike Savage and Prem Naidoo.

Demonstrations of the arts and sciences in a classical courtyard. Etching by J. Sturt after S. Le Clerc.

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What technology wants / Kevin Kelly.

Hommes et techniques de l'Antiquité à la Renaissance / Marie-Claire Amouretti, Georges Comet.

The myth of the machine : technics and human development / Lewis Mumford.

The heads of women are reforged in a workshop by the sea; representing a brutal cure for the 'madness' of women. Line engraving by F. Campion, 1663.

Medieval technology and social change / Lynn White, Jr.

History and technology.

Medieval technology and social change / by Lynn White, Jr.

Homo faber : technology and culture in India, China, and the West from 1500 to the present day / by Claude Alphonso Alvares.

Popularisation of science and technology education : some case studies from Africa / edited by Mike Savage and Prem Naidoo.

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