HIST-308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Peter Abelard, Compass
17 Nov 2020
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One of the most important was a new type of mill. Latin europe had been limited to water mills for centuries; hydraulic power was plentiful but problematic. This is one reason why lords and vassals, in feudal contracts, speaking quite precisely about water rights: but in the twelfth century, the first windmills began to appear in europe. Knowledge of their design probably was brought back to europe by the soldiers of the first and. Second crusade. we know that the people of palestine, syria, and iraq had developed windmills at least by the late tenth century. Windmills could be constructed anywhere and were less vulnerable to seasonal change than water mills. Certain models date back to classical times: both plato and aristotle had founded academies in. Athens where they regularly gave lectures. in roman times there had been organized centers of study at places like alexandria and. In islam, the institutions of the majlis and madrasas also provided certain precedents.
