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Engineering in the Ancient World
The Greeks and Romans were considerable engineers. They made many remarkable machines, which where not betttered until the Industrial Revolution. Landels shows how these machines were developed and made. He draws together evidence from archaeological discoveries and from literary sources.
A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities
In A Tale of Three Thirsty Cities: The Innovative Water Supply Systems of Toledo, London and Paris in the Second Half of the Sixteenth Century, Chaim Shulman presents an analysis of three projects of urban water supply systems carried out between 1560s–1610s. The technical and economic differences between these projects resulted from external conditions not directly related to the water supply problem. Although the same basic technology was apparently available at the time in all cases, the geographical, engineering, entrepreneurial and cultural nature of each region differed. The inhabitants’ wellbeing improvement achieved varied accordingly. Much broader insights are drawn on the policies of the three monarchies regarding the initiative of and support for grand scale public works in general.
Greek and Roman Textiles and Dress
Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and inter-disciplinarity study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different types of embellishments of dress from weaving techniques to the (late introduction) of embroidery; the close links between the language of ancient mathematics and weaving; the relationships of iconography to the realities of clothed bodies including a paper on the ground breaking research on the polychromy of ancient statuary; dye recipes and...
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Die Orgel im Altertum
This monumental history of the design, manufacture, use and recognition of the organ in antiquity studies numerous literary and archaeological sources from the Hellenistic and Roman world and the heritage of these in Byzantium, the Islam and the Latin Middle Ages.
CHEOPS-PYRAMIDE gebaut mit den eigenen BARKEN
Schiffe und Schiffsgruben in der Wüste, das elektrisiert besonders jene, die sozusagen von Berufs wegen sich mit dem Bau der alten Pyramiden beschäftigen. Helmar Neubacher, Ingenieur für Schiffsbetriebstechnik kommt bei der Frage, wie konnten die alten Ägypter vor 4.600 Jahren tonnenschwere Steine heben, zu experimentell bestätigten Antworten. Sein Studium der Schriften des Herodot, der einschlägigen Fachliteratur, sein eigener beruflicher Hintergrund, Analysen vor Ort und insbesondere Dutzende von Experimenten lassen ihn zu der Überzeugung kommen, dass WASSERKRAFT und das HEBELPRIN-ZIP die alten Baumeister zu ihren fantastischen Leistungen befähigten. Im Prinzip lässt sich jede Las...
Philo von Alexandrien
Philo of Alexandria was the first Middle Platonic thinker whose writings have largely survived. Otto Kaiser introduces the reader to his life, work and writings based on the extant manuscripts. Philo of Alexandria is one of the most important figures in the history of Hellenic culture. His writings are an essential source of information on Hellenic and Stoic philosophy, much of which was subsequently lost. His importance to the history of theology rests on the fact that he was the first author to write about the Pentateuch based on the writings of the Greek philosophers available to him. His works also reflect his knowledge of the thoughts of the empirical scientists of his time. Otto Kaiser introduces the reader to the life, work and writings of Philo based on the extant works of Philo as well as of many other ancient writers.
