What if humanity’s most important invention wasn’t the steam engine or the printing press, but a machine that you’ve never heard of, built by a man that history forgot?
Eight billion people owe their lives to a man you’ve never heard of. In Forgotten, Jaime D?vila uncovers the astonishing true story of Cornelis Corneliszoon, a 16th-century Dutch tinkerer whose simple invention – the wind-powered sawmill – unleashed a chain reaction that built the modern world. Faster ships. Global trade. Stock markets. The Industrial Revolution. None of this would have happened without this single millwright’s practical innovation.
A rigorous, revelatory, and unflinchingly subversive challenge to our understanding of how the modern world was built, and a long-overdue correction of an historical injustice.
Author: Jaime Dávila
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Quinto Malo Books
Published: 12/18/2025
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9798998953705
Language: English
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