chapter 2

This chapter does a nice job of addressing a question we had after reading the first chapter about the advance of science and wonders. Here we can see that there are many human-made wonders taking place in the late middle ages with the engineering of doorways and what not that seemed to defy what was known about the laws of nature. Even though it was known by people how this worked it was still a wonder because of it's rarity in the world and the way in which it plays with the mind.
What was also rather interesting to me was the way the wonders were guarded in order to keep the wonder with the object. Those that had these wonders never wanted them on display often or to people of little importance. The idea was that they could only be shown on rare occasion to important people otherwise the power would ware out. This is pretty true in that if you show something off enough then no one really cares so it wont work as a status symbol anymore.