{"product_id":"the-maze-of-ingenuity-second-edition-ideas-and-idealism-in-the-development-of-technology-9780262660754","title":"The Maze of Ingenuity, Second Edition: Ideas and Idealism in the Development of Technology","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Arnold Pacey\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: History\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom cathedrals to star wars, Arnold Pacey looks at the interaction of technologies and society over the last thousand years and uses that survey to argue for a more humane form of future technological development. The second edition of \u003ci\u003eThe Maze of Ingenuity\u003c\/i\u003e concentrates on Europe and North America and incorporates recent insights from the history and sociology of technology. A new series of chapters extends Pacey's discussion of the role of ideas and ideals in technology in the period since the industrial revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eThe Cathedral Builders: European Technical Achievement between 1100 and 1280 - A Century of Invention: 1250-1350 - Mathematics and the Arts: 1450-1600 - The Practical Arts and the Scientific Revolution - Social Ideals in Technical Change: German Miners and English Puritans, 1450-1650 - The State and Technical Progress: 1660-1770 - Technology in the Industrial Revolution - Conflicting Ideals in Engineering: America and Britain, 1790-1870 - Institutionalizing Technical Ideals, 1820-1920 - Idealistic Trends in Twentieth-Century Technology\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46893625671831,"sku":"9780262660754","price":4103.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262660754.webp?v=1770317725","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-maze-of-ingenuity-second-edition-ideas-and-idealism-in-the-development-of-technology-9780262660754","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}