[PDF.76so] The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)

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 | #1084004 in Books |  Bulliet Richard W |  2016-01-19 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.10 x.90 x6.00l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 272 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Insightful but thankfully a quick read|By Keith Aspinall|It is hard to read this book without believing that it's primary purpose was to appropriately and accurately discount Jared Diamonds view of the invention of the wheel. There is very little humanity in this book, by that I mean few stories of people who are important to the invention of the wheel. Dry as it is however, t| |This is a wonderful book, brimming at once with fascinating tales and with fundamental insights into the nature of invention. (Patrick Manning, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of World History, University of Pittsburgh)

A fascinating book. (New Scient

In this book, Richard W. Bulliet focuses on three major phases in the evolution of the wheel and their relationship to the needs and ambitions of human society. He begins in 4000 B.C.E. with the first wheels affixed to axles. He then follows with the innovation of wheels turning independently on their axles and concludes five thousand years later with the caster, a single rotating and pivoting wheel.

Bulliet's most interesting finding is that a simple desire to mo...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Wheel: Inventions and Reinventions (Columbia Studies in International and Global History)   |  Richard Bulliet. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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