THE SPIRIT OF EUROPE – Octavian Capatina

The Spirit of Europe 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 variousinternal 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.

Octavian Capatina 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 Designing with Microprocessors and Designing with Microcomputers.
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.
He is also the author of several books published in the field of European culture and history, including: Romania of creators versus absurd Romania (1994), The Towns of Transylvania (1995), The Encyclopaedia of Outstanding Romanian Personalities (2011, 2013), The Spirit of Europe, along with a chronology (Romanian edition, 2017, 2022), and Culture, Confession, Ethnicity, and Race in the Middle Basin of the Danube (2024).