by Jean Gimpel (Author), Helen McPhail (Translator)

Represents the first calm, detailed, and rational description of the imminent end of western industrial civilization as we know it.

Author Biography

JEAN GIMPEL is a historian of technology and the cycles of civilization. He is the author of several works devoted to the scientific culture of the Middle Ages, including two bestselling books, The Cathedral Builders and The Mediaeval Machine: The Industrial Revolution of the Middle Ages.

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