HIST115 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Gutenberg Bible, Johannes Gutenberg, Potassium Nitrate
24 Feb 2016
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Hist wed. sept. 30 lecture 6: chines technologies and europeans, gutenberg, printing press, and medieval; revival of ancient knowledge, the compass , china - political predictions. Not created for direction: europeans - got this invention, they concurred the world! Black powder : china - elixir of life", religious festivals. Thought they would live forever, it actually was a poison and eventually you would get sick and die. Europeans killed each other, created canons with the black powder. Rocketry : china primary for religious festivals, sometimes for scaring the peasants, europeans went to space! Chinese basically invented everything, but never used superior technologies the way europeans did. To us: rapid change = progress and progress" is always good. Chinese mentality new technologies cause rapid change rapid change brings imbalance, imbalance is bad. Was s system designed to keep inventors close to the government.
