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	History of technology - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It is intimately related with the history of science, which includes how humans have acquired the background knowledge necessary to build useful things.
		The more information and knowledge (especially allowing the shaping of natural environment) a given society has, the more advanced it is. He identifies four stages of human development, based on advances in the history of communication.
		From MIT OpenCourseWare, course materials (graduate level) for a course on the history of technology through a Thomas Kuhn-ian lens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Technology (2318 words)

	Dr. Mardy's Quotes of the Week -- November 24-30, 2002
		Spinoza was an extremely bright and fiercely independent thinker, questioning accepted doctrines and challenging authority figures most of his life (his beliefs so alienated the local Jewish leadership that, at age 24, he was expelled from the Amsterdam synagogue).
		Spinoza supported himself by tutoring schoolchildren and learning the trade of lensmaking, but his lifetime passion was philosophy.
		Heavily influenced by the "new philosophy" of Rene Descartes, Spinoza became one of the principal exponents of seventeenth-century Rationalism.
	www.chiasmus.com /archive/msg00099.html (1161 words)

	Bronica 645
		The RF645, the first all-new Bronica since the medium-format manufacturer's acquisition by the independent lensmaking giant Tamron, has been something very close to a fiasco.
		This is probably a bit embarrassing to Tamron, since lensmaking is the company's forté.
		Simply put, this is a landmark book, an important volume in the history of 20th Century photography.
	www.luminous-landscape.com /columns/sm-03-02-16.shtml (2122 words)

	Dr. Mardy's Quotes of the Week -- November 21-27, 2004
		An extremely bright and fiercely independent thinker, he questioned doctrine and challenged authority most of his life (his beliefs so alienated the local Jewish leadership that, at age 24, he was expelled from the Amsterdam synagogue).
		Spinoza supported himself by tutoring schoolchildren and lensmaking, but his lifetime passion was philosophy.
		In 1950, he created "Peanuts," which became one of the most successful comic strips in history (it was originally titled "Li'l Folks").
	www.chiasmus.com /archive/msg00203.html (997 words)

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		This list is good training for me because my 9 year old is determined to live at the time of the Civil War and wants his uniforms to be as authentic as possible.
		The first commercial book on lensmaking was published in 1591 in Frankfurt.
		Lensmaking was a specialization for some Venetian glassmakers, who made them for sailing expeditions (e.g.
	sca.uwaterloo.ca /~fashion/archives/hcos95/v03n202.cl (2868 words)

	Coding Service
		Speaking of numbers, when making a horizontal list (that which occurs within the text of a paragraph), arabic numerals are to be enclosed ON BOTH SIDES with parentheses.
		For example: "The patient has a past medical history of (1) hypertension, (2) diabetes mellitus, and (3) hypercholesterolemia.
		Midway through the 17th century, when lensmaking was in its infancy, a draper's apprentice and cloth merchant by the name of Antoine van Leeuwenhoek started using an enlarger as a basic tool in examining the threads of his fabrics.
	www.njpr.com /subpages/newsletters/december2002.htm (3747 words)

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		In one of the early episodes he extensively covers the topic of lensmaking and the earliest use of spectacles, as well as Galileo's role in developing and using telescopes.
		They carry mostly American History type items, but many of the things that they have would work in a number of different eras.
		the Visual History of the 14th and 15th Century costume book was at Lacis last time I was there.
	sca.uwaterloo.ca /~fashion/archives/hcos95/v03n203.cl (2587 words)

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		A new field like the history of instruments needs data first, then the theories can be appropriate.
		We'll try to persuade them that there are people seriously interested in the history of the Japanese optical industry, and that we need to get the information in the near future, before it is unavailable.
		The book begins by introducing some of the persons relevant to the history, including: Frederic J. Cheshire, 1860-1939, was Scientific and Technical Director of the Optical Department of the Ministry of Munitions of War; and president of the Optical Society from 1916-1920.
	www.europa.com /~telscope/listp200.txt (19243 words)

	Asian-Links categories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
		Offers a variety of optic services, including sight test, selection of frames and lenses for spectacles, lensmaking laboratory, contact lenses, includes photos of their stores, hours of operation and locations.
		Offers designer eyewear, frames, sunglasses for both adults and children, includes list of products and a directory of worldwide retailers.
		A history of the development of food in the Asian Region
	asian-links.com /cgi/odp/index.cgi?base=/Business/Consumer_Goods_and_Services/Eyewear (870 words)

	f/7.7 vs. f/7.5
		I have never heard of any lensmaking cooperation between the two companies, so think it is most unlikely that they were other than competitors.
		And Gundlach/Turner-Reich was in the suburb of Fairport...Dr. Kingslake wrote a little book about the history of photographic manufacturing in Rochester (there was a lot) but he never delved into such arcane detail.
		I'll have to take another look at that lens, there must be some reason I need it...
	www.largeformatphotography.info /lfforum/topic/501021.html (827 words)

	Forums » Journals » Chapter 6891
		Seminar was okay, a little bit messy in the lab (with 30T and 12T lens grinding compounds that make your hands smell like metal), but I get back to the ag and the printer is broken.
		I'm not that great with history, but maybe it's because history is an inherently difficult topic to study.
		Many of the things I enjoy have quite a bit of history behind them, which I could stand to learn.
	text.broadbandreports.com /forum/remark,5824883~mode=journal (5321 words)

	HSCI 1814: Essay Topics
		(Be sure to address at least three of the following: printing press/paper, navigation, cartography, distillation, lensmaking [hint hint!], mining, Boyle's air-pump, postal system, Royal Society, architecture, clocks and geared machinery).
		How do both seem to reflect elements in the emergence of modern science?
		Contrast the conventional image of Galileo's trial with the history, as portrayed in our retrial.
	my.pclink.com /~allchin/1814/essays.htm (540 words)

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