From goya@racine.vjf.cnrs.fr Sun Feb 18 07:24:58 2001 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.05/8.9.3+UW00.12) with ESMTP id HAA23580 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:24:57 -0800 Received: from filer.fr.clara.net (filer.fr.clara.net [212.43.194.74]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id HAA17623 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 07:24:56 -0800 Received: from mail3.freesurf.fr (bastille.freesurf.fr [212.43.206.2]) by filer.fr.clara.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A4172F6A for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:24:55 +0100 (CET) Received: from [212.43.225.186] (du-225-186.nat.dialup.freesurf.fr [212.43.225.186]) by mail3.freesurf.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A01219008 for ; Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:24:54 +0100 (CET) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 16:24:43 +0100 To: classics@u.washington.edu From: Michael Chase Subject: apology and technology Friends, My latest post on Geraistos was not meant as a piece of one-upmanship: I simply didn't notice, before I hit the send button, that J. Butrica had already provided the same information. That'll teach me to read before I post..... On technology there are the works of my former teacher and colleague John Oleson at the U. of Victoria: AUTHOR: Humphrey, John William, 1946- TITLE: Greek and Roman technology : a sourcebook : annotated translations of Greek and Latin texts and documents / John W. Humphrey, John P. Oleson, and Andrew N. Sherwood. PUB. INFO: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998. DESCRIPTION: xxiv, 623 p. ; 24 cm. CONTENTS: The rise of humans and human technology -- Sources of energy and basic mechanical devices -- Agriculture -- Food processing -- Mining and quarrying -- Metallurgy -- Construction engineering -- Hydraulic engineering -- Household crafts and workshop production -- Transport and trade -- Record-keeping -- Military technology -- Attitudes towards labour, innovation and technology. AUTHOR: Oleson, John Peter. TITLE: Bronze Age, Greek, and Roman technology : a select, annotated bibliography / John Peter Oleson. PUB. INFO: New York : Garland Pub., 1986. DESCRIPTION: xvi, 515 p. ; 23 cm. SERIES: Garland reference library of the humanities ; vol. 646 Bibliographies on the history of science and technology ; vol. 13 AUTHOR: Oleson, John Peter. TITLE: Greek and Roman mechanical water-lifting devices : the history of a technology / John Peter Oleson. PUB. INFO: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, 1984. DESCRIPTION: xiv, 458 p., [148] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm. SERIES: Phoenix supplementary volumes series ; 16 For the survival of Greek and Roman technology in Medieval Islam - an awful lot of Greek works lost in the West were translated early on into Arabic - see for instance the journal _Arabic Sciences and Philosophy_, published for the members of a Villejuif-based research group directed by Roshdi Rashed by Cambridge U. P. Ciaofernow, Mike. Michael Chase (goya@vjf.cnrs.fr) 31 rue de Poissy Paris 75005 01 43 26 50 25 .