The Spirit of Europe

<p><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>The Spirit of Europe</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> is an incredible and substantial journey through time and the history of Europe from its foundations alongside a chronology. Analyzing with a personal and original perspective the author proposes new interpretations of events and phenomena for a rewriting of history from less radical positions deconstructs and reconstructs the cornerstones that founded not only modern thought but also the various internal vicissitudes of the countries that interacted geographically and politically. In his work he attempts a history of Europe based on ideas and beliefs that influenced historical personalities or drove the masses to fight. Through images and maps that he personally created even non-experts and non-historians the readers will reopen the drawers of their memory mulling over unresolved issues and giving explanations on modern conflicts that have very distant and complex roots.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Octavian Capatina</strong><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> was awarded a master's degree in Electronics in 1971. A researcher in the computer field between 1974 and 2000. He built the first microprocessor computer in Romania in late 1976 which completed its first task in March 1977. After that he wrote the bestselling technical books </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Designing with Microprocessors</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Designing with Microcomputers.</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Between 1980 and 1985 he designed and built a plotter three generations of command units for electrohydraulic robots and the command units for a flexible manufacturing cell. His latest book in the field of technology The Large Grid Integration of Small Residential Photovoltaic Cells was published in 2020.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>He is also the author of several books published in the field of European culture and history including: </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Romania of creators versus absurd Romania</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> (1994) </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>The Towns of Transylvania</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> (1995) </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>The Encyclopaedia of Outstanding Romanian Personalities</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> (2011 2013) </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>The Spirit of Europe</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> along with a chronology (Romanian edition 2017 2022) and </span><em style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)>Culture Confession Ethnicity and Race in the Middle Basin of the Danube</em><span style=color: rgba(91 91 61 1)> (2024).</span></p><p></p>