Resources — World Machines

Essay 8 June 2026 · vgr

A Song Of Proto Industrialization

Good example of modernity machine counterfactual

Supplement 30 May 2026 · Robert Darnton (translated by Claude Sonnet 4.6) Access

French Passages in Translation: The Business of Enlightenment

All 1,197 French passages from Darnton's The Business of Enlightenment, translated into English with page numbers and chapter/section context. Generated by Claude API from the CC BY PDF.

Book 1979 · Robert Darnton PDF

The Business of Enlightenment: A Publishing History of the Encyclopédie, 1775–1800

Microhistory of how the Encyclopédie was produced, distributed, and consumed — business history as intellectual history. CC BY 4.0.

Essay 10 May 2026 · aneesh

Robert Hookes Cyberpunk Letter To Gottfried Leibniz

Presents Hooke as transition from clocks to locks

Book 1964 · Frances A. Yates

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition

Book 4 May 2026 · Douglas E. Streusand

Islamic Gunpowder Empires

Book 2015 · Dante Alighieri

Divine Comedy

Book 2007 · Stewart Gordon

When Asia Was the World

Book 1958 · Michel de Montaigne

The Complete Essays

Book 2018 · Brian A. Catlos

Kingdoms of Faith

Book 1998 · Richard Hall

Empires of the Monsoon

Book 1989 · Burton Stein

Vijayanagara

Book 2011 · Nils Gilman

Deviant Globalization

Book 2015 · Andrea Wulf

The Invention of Nature

Book 1983 · David Landes

Revolution in Time

Book 1516 · Giovanni Boccaccio

Decameron

Book 4 May 2026 · Elizabeth S. Eisenstein

The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe

Book 2023 · Henry Farrell

Underground Empire

Book 4 May 2026 · Harold van der Linde

Majapahit

Book 1478 · Geoffrey Chaucer

Canterbury Tales

Book 2012 · Wu Cheng'en

Monkey King: Journey to the West

Book 2011 · Roger Crowley

City of Fortune

Book 2015 · Robin Douglass

Rousseau and Hobbes

Book 4 May 2026 · Robert Irwin

Ibn Khaldun: An Intellectual Biography

Book 2025 · Ada Palmer

Inventing the Renaissance

Book 1747 · Miguel de Cervantes

Don Quixote

Book 2016 · Sanjeev Sanyal

Ocean of Churn

Book 4 May 2026 · David Chaffetz

Raiders, Rulers, and Traders

Book 1746 · Voltaire

Candide

Book 2011 · Charles C. Mann

1493

Book 4 May 2026 · David Crouch

The Chivalric Turn

Book 2022 · Andrea Wulf

Magnificent Rebels

Book 1600 · Barbara Tuchman

A Distant Mirror

Book 2006 · Matthew Stewart

The Courtier and the Heretic

Book 2017 · Dennis Rasmussen

The Infidel and the Professor

Book 2006 · Edward L. Dreyer

Zheng He

Book 4 May 2026 · Thomas Madden

Venice: A New History

Book 2021 · José Ortega y Gasset

Revolt of the Masses

Book 1518 · Thomas More

Utopia

Book 1982 · Fernand Braudel

Civilization and Capitalism

Book 1989 · Janet L. Abu-Lughod

Before European Hegemony

Book 1980 · Patricia Crone