Machines to enhance and increase the power of the human body have been used since remotest antiquity. The simplest of machines, the lever, seems to have emerged independently in many different cultures, millennia ago. Simple systems of pulleys and cranks have been used all around the world for many centuries. Understanding the advantage of machines …
Categoria: European Discoveries: From the New World to New Technologies
History of Medicine
The history of medicine is almost as ancient as written records exist. Curiosity about the mysterious and fascinating workings of the human body as well as an endless fighting against disease have been always present whenever there are human beings. Even when societies had the most primitive notions about the inner composition and the workings …
Introduction – The idea of “discovery”
The idea of “discovery” — of exploring the unknown, of finding and attempting novel things, of creating new objects and artefacts, of innovative challenges to the conventional – has been constant in the history of humankind and of Europe. The passion to discover is one of the most common and permanent traits of European history …