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Cathedral, Forge and Waterwheel: Technology and Invention in the Middle Ages (Medieval Life) (Reprint Edition) by Joseph Gies, Frances Gies Paperback, 357 Pages, Published 1995 ISBN-10: 0-06-092581-7 / 0060925817 ISBN-13: 978-0-06-092581-9 / 9780060925819 Historians, write Frances and Joseph Gies, have long tended to view the Middle Ages as a period of intellectual and scientific stagnation, a long era of backwardness, ignorance, and inertia. Many scholars of the Renaissance era, however, thought otherwise; the mathematician Jerome Cardan, for one, h |