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Alfred Crosby described some of this technological revolution in ''The Measure of Reality : Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600'' and other major historians of Technology have also noted it.
'''Bold text'''hh==Medieval technologies==
List of important medieval technologies.
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|Documented in China from [[1128]], cannons are first recorded in Europe at the siege of [[Metz]] in 1324. In 1350 [[Petrarch]] wrote "these instruments which discharge balls of metal with most tremendous noise and flashes of fire...were a few years ago very rare and were viewed with greatest astonishment and admiration, but now they are become as common and familiar as any other kinds of arms."
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