Mangalwadi Replacement Flashcards
(95 cards)
Lynn White Jr.
professor of history at Stanford, Princeton
what are the four attributes of Ernst Benz
- the Bible emphasized intelligent craftsmanship in the world’s deigns
- the Bible suggested that human beings participate in divine workmanship by being good artisan themselves
- the bible taught that we follow divine example when we use the physical universe for righteous ends
- the bible challenged the west to use time wisely because each moment is a valuable one time opportunity
how did Christianity kill animism?
the biblical cosmos was enchanted. the bible affirmed the existence of spirits, demons, and angels. it secularized the physical universe by teaching that human beings not spirits were meant to rule over nature. that wvw made it possible fro the west to use nature rationally for human ends-though it is true that many in the west have abused technology to exploit nature in unjust or irresponsible ways
who made the European monastic movement different from other religious traditions?
St. Benedict
who persuaded a group of businessmen to take advantage of what we not call Research and Development?
Alfred Mond
what inventions that hellped free slaves
- wheel barrow-replaced a worker with a wheel and carried more than the slaves could in their small packs
- fore-and-aft rig sail- replaced slaves that rowed the boat and eliminated the galley
- horses. created horseshoes,, harness, and reigns
three-field system
helped cultivation, leading to better rotation of crop and fallow, less labor, and more produce. improved productivity made it possible to replace the oxen with costlier but more powerful horses. greater productiity
what is a flywheel?
multiplies the work of a laborer. stores rotational momentum which makes better use of fluctuating energy, it makes it possible to pedal a bicycle once and get the wheel to rotate many times.
who wrote De diversis artibus?
Theophilus
who was a technologically oriented theologian and Benedictine monk
Theophilus
what book was motivated by its authors faith and codified the skills needed to embellish a great church for the glory of God?
De diversis artibus by Theophilus
what provided the nursery of mechanical engineering in the west?
the mechanical clock
from where does the core idea of the clock come from?
the Indian mathematician Bhaskaracharya’s view of perpetual motion described in siddhanta Shiromani.
who was the bishop of Paris from 1228-49?
William of Auvergne
who put forward the suggestion to make a clock by putting these abstract mathematical notions to practical use?
William of Auvergne
what turned clock making and repairing into a revolution, speeeding up mechanical engineering?
eyeglasses
when were eyeglasses invented?
1280s near Pisa or lucca
why did Monks become their patrons?
because they needed them to study
from where did we get our first info about eyeglasses?
from a sermon on repentance preached at Santa Maria Novella in Florence by Domnican Fra Giordano of Pisa
who was the benedictine monk who may have been the first European to attempt to fly in the 11C?
Eilmer of Wiltshire Abbey of Malmesbury, England
what is integrating mind and muscles?
technology
what is a breathing reflection into physical action?
technology
where did medieval technology develop?
in the humdrum of the economic life of Christian monasteries
monasticism
began as reaction against the corrupting influence of Greco-roman thought in the Christian church, especially the attitude that manual work was “low class”
