New York Times bestselling author Edward Dolnick brings to light the true story of one of the most pivotal moments in modern intellectual history—when a group of strange, tormented geniuses invented science as we know it, and remade our understanding of the world. Dolnick’s earth-changing story of Isaac Newton, the Royal Society, and the birth of modern science is at once an entertaining romp through the annals of academic history, in the vein of Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything, and a captivating exploration of a defining time for scientific progress, in the tradition of Richard Holmes’ The Age of Wonder.

In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel, air conditioning, and television transformed households and workplaces. With medical advances, life expectancy between 1870 and 1970 grew from forty-five to seventy-two years. Weaving together a vivid narrative, historical anecdotes, and economic analysis, The Rise and Fall of American Growth provides an in-depth account of this momentous era. But has that era of unprecedented growth come to an end?
Gordon challenges the view that economic growth can or will continue unabated, and he demonstrates that the life-altering scale of innovations between 1870 and 1970 can't be repeated. He contends that the nation's productivity growth, which has already slowed to a crawl, will be further held back by the vexing headwinds of rising inequality, stagnating education, an aging population, and the rising debt of college students and the federal government. Gordon warns that the younger generation may be the first in American history that fails to exceed their parents' standard of living, and that rather than depend on the great advances of the past, we must find new solutions to overcome the challenges facing us.
A critical voice in the debates over economic stagnation, The Rise and Fall of American Growth is at once a tribute to a century of radical change and a harbinger of tougher times to come.

How the history of technological revolutions can help us better understand economic and political polarization in the age of automation
From the Industrial Revolution to the age of artificial intelligence, The Technology Trap takes a sweeping look at the history of technological progress and how it has radically shifted the distribution of economic and political power among society’s members. As Carl Benedikt Frey shows, the Industrial Revolution created unprecedented wealth and prosperity over the long run, but the immediate consequences of mechanization were devastating for large swaths of the population. Middle-income jobs withered, wages stagnated, the labor share of income fell, profits surged, and economic inequality skyrocketed. These trends, Frey documents, broadly mirror those in our current age of automation, which began with the Computer Revolution.
Just as the Industrial Revolution eventually brought about extraordinary benefits for society, artificial intelligence systems have the potential to do the same. But Frey argues that this depends on how the short term is managed. In the nineteenth century, workers violently expressed their concerns over machines taking their jobs. The Luddite uprisings joined a long wave of machinery riots that swept across Europe and China. Today’s despairing middle class has not resorted to physical force, but their frustration has led to rising populism and the increasing fragmentation of society. As middle-class jobs continue to come under pressure, there’s no assurance that positive attitudes to technology will persist.
The Industrial Revolution was a defining moment in history, but few grasped its enormous consequences at the time. The Technology Trap demonstrates that in the midst of another technological revolution, the lessons of the past can help us to more effectively face the present.

如果计算机真正消除了文书工作，那么办公室的垃圾箱为什么老是装得满满的？为何银行自动兑款机前的队伍经常比出纳员窗口的队伍长？凡是思索过这些问题的人，都可在本书中找到答案。作者对最值得人们夸耀的技术的令人沮丧的“报复效应”，作了富有洞察力、发人深思、妙趣横生的探究。
从使美式橄榄球比英式橄榄球更危险的衬垫，到迫使吸烟者吸得更多的“低焦油”香烟，从造成新的抗药菌系的抗生素，到需要更快的信息处理机和更多的辅助工作人员的计算机软件，爱德华·特纳几乎提供了一切技术革新的意外后果，并告诉人们如何在这个“计划赶不上变化”的世界里生存。

《中国科学技术史(第4卷):物理学及相关技术(第3分册土木工程与航海技术)》是这部巨著的第四卷第三分册，主要论述中国古代土木工程及航海技术的发展历史和主要成就。著名英籍科学史家李约瑟花费近五十年心血撰著的多卷本《中国科学技术史(第4卷):物理学及相关技术(第3分册土木工程与航海技术)》，通过丰富的史料、深入的分析和大量的东西方比较研究，全面、系统地论述了中国古代科学技术的辉煌成就及其对世界文明的伟大贡献，内容涉及哲学、历史、科学思想、数、理、化、天、地、生、农、医及工程技术等诸多领域。

In this concluding volume of The Myth of the Machine, Mumford brings to a head his radical revisions of the stale popular conceptions of human and technological progress. Far from being an attack on science and technics, The Pentagon of Power seeks to establish a more organic social order based on technological resources. Index; photographs.

Mumford explains the forces that have shaped technology since prehistoric times and shaped the modern world. He shows how tools developed because of significant parallel inventions in ritual, language, and social organization. “It is a stimulating volume, informed both with an enormous range of knowledge and empathetic spirit” (Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times). Index; photographs.

This is a history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization. Mumford has drawn on every aspect of life to explain the machine and to trace its social results. "An extraordinarily wide-ranging, sensitive, and provocative book about a subject upon which
philosophers have so far shed but little light" (Journal of Philosophy).

Lewis Mumford - architectural critic, theorist of technology, urbanologist, city planner, cultural critic, historian, biographer, and philosopher - was the author of more than thirty influential books, many of which expounded his views on the perils of urban sprawl and a society obsessed with "technics." Featuring a new introduction by Casey Nelson Blake, this classic text provides the essence of Mumford's views on the distinct yet interpenetrating roles of technology and the arts in modern culture. Mumford contends that modern man's overemphasis on technics has contributed to the depersonalization and emptiness of much of twentieth-century life. He issues a call for a renewed respect for artistic impulses and achievements. His repeated insistence that technological development take the Human as its measure - as well as his impassioned plea for humanity to make the most of its "splendid potentialities and promise" and reverse its progress toward anomie and destruction - is ever more relevant as the new century dawns.

Consider Facebook—it’s human contact, only easier to engage with and easier to avoid. Developing technology promises closeness. Sometimes it delivers, but much of our modern life leaves us less connected with people and more connected to simulations of them.

In Alone Together , MIT technology and society professor Sherry Turkle explores the power of our new tools and toys to dramatically alter our social lives. It’s a nuanced exploration of what we are looking for—and sacrificing—in a world of electronic companions and social networking tools, and an argument that, despite the hand-waving of today’s self-described prophets of the future, it will be the next generation who will chart the path between isolation and connectivity.

本书作者是北宋政治家、科学家苏颂对前代天文学成果进行了全面总结，在此基础上主持研制了一座全新的天文观测和报时的仪器“水运仪象台”。《新仪象法要》是苏颂对仪象台的制造和使用所作的说明，是我国古代天文学研究的杰作，在我国古代科技史上有很高的地位。译注者是长期研究古代科技史的专家，在为本书所撰写的前言中对我国古代天文学的发展作了介绍，对苏颂的成就进行了恰当的评价。本书对于保存我国古代天文学成果、普及科技史知识，对于方便科技史研究者的工作均有一定价值。
前言
四库全书提要
卷上
进仪象状
浑仪
六合仪
三辰仪
四游仪
……
卷中
浑象
浑象六合仪
浑象赤道牙
浑象紫微垣星之图
浑象中外官星图
……
卷下
水运仪象台
运动仪象制度
木阁
昼夜机轮
机轮轴
天轮
拨牙机轮
木阁第一层
昼时钟鼓轮
木阁第二层
昼夜时初正司辰轮
……
苏颂生平
后记

本书概述了身体研究领域的最新进展，提出创新框架来分析具身体现，融贯了有关该主题的古典探讨与当代研究，力主将身体解读为社会之构成过程中的多维中介；并在此基础上铺陈一系列具体分析，从经济、文化、社交、工作到运动、音乐、技术，将身体与多个领域联系到一起，为研究者聚焦主题，引初学者进入殿堂。

Boldly challenging conventional wisdom, acclaimed science writer and Omni magazine cofounder Dick Teresi traces the origins of contemporary science back to their ancient roots in an eye-opening account and landmark work. This innovative history proves once and for all that the roots of modern science were established centuries, and in some instances millennia, before the births of Copernicus, Galileo, and Newton. In this enlightening, entertaining, and important book, Teresi describes many discoveries from all over the non-Western world -- Sumeria, Babylon, Egypt, India, China, Africa, Arab nations, the Americas, and the Pacific islands -- that equaled and often surpassed Greek and European learning in the fields of mathematics, astronomy, cosmology, physics, geology, chemistry, and technology. The first extensive and authoritative multicultural history of science written for a popular audience, Lost Discoveries fills a critical void in our scientific, cultural, and intellectual history and is destined to become a classic in its field.

The crystal ball of the next technological era. Leading scientists， engineers， and entrepreneurs provide vivid accounts of the latest inventions， revealing how the new international balance of power really lies in information technology.