Essays In The History Of Mechanics

Author : C. Truesdell
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 3642866476
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays in the History of Mechanics written by C. Truesdell and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume collects my shorter articles on the history of mechanics, some already published in various places, some revised from earlier papers, and some never published before. All of them began as lectures, and here they are printed as such, little changed from the last times I read them out to an audience. While the several articles concern different aspects of mechanics, overlap and even some repetition could not be avoided, since mechanics is one great science, and the same original oftentimes served more than one end in its growth. My three major historical treatises, which were published in Volumes (II) 11 , 2 12, and 13 of L. Euleri Opera Omnia, are not included. To simplify the printing I have also mostly omitted detailed reference to sources discussed more fully in those treatises, but of course I have added to the texts of the lectures citations of other sources, some notes in answer to questions a reader might ask, and biblio graphical notes at the end of each. I am grateful to the U.S. National Science Foundation for its support of this work through a grant to The Johns Hopkins University.

Author : Clifford Truesdell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 383 pages
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Author : Antonio Becchi
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 303488091X
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of Mechanics written by Antonio Becchi and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of mechanics, and more particularly, the history of mechanics applied to constructions, constitutes a field of research that is relatively recent. This volume, together with the recent publication "Towards a History of Construction", is intended as an homage to the two eminent scholars who made a determinant contribution to the history of mechanics: Edoardo Benvenuto and Clifford Truesdell.

Author : Francesco Sorge
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319226800
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essays on the History of Mechanical Engineering written by Francesco Sorge and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book treats several subjects from the History of Mechanism and Machine Science, and also contains an illustrative presentation of the Museum of Engines and Mechanisms of the University of Palermo, Italy, which houses a collection of various pieces of machinery from the last 150 years. The various sections deal with some eminent scientists of the past, with the history of industrial installations, machinery and transport, with the human inventiveness for mechanical and scientific devices, and with robots and human-driven automata. All chapters have been written by experts in their fields. The volume shows a wide-ranging panorama on the historical progress of scientific and technical knowledge in the past centuries. It will stimulate new research and ideas for those involved in the history of Science and Technology.

Author : David Speiser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9783764385644
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800 written by David Speiser and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-09-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles 21 essays on the history of mechanics and mathematical physics written by David Speiser. Covering a period from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the eighteenth, the essays discuss developments in elasticity, rigid bodies, gravitation, the principle of relativity, optics, and first principles. They examine the work of Galileo, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz, the Bernoullis, Euler, Maupertuis, and Lambert.

Author : John L. Heilbron
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780195112290
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science written by John L. Heilbron and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-02-14 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Containing 609 encyclopedic articles written by more than 200 prominent scholars, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science presents an unparalleled history of the field invaluable to anyone with an interest in the technology, ideas, discoveries, and learned institutions that have shaped our world over the past five centuries. Focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the early twenty-first century, the articles cover all disciplines (Biology, Alchemy, Behaviorism), historical periods (the Scientific Revolution, World War II, the Cold War), concepts (Hypothesis, Space and Time, Ether), and methodologies and philosophies (Observation and Experiment, Darwinism). Coverage is international, tracing the spread of science from its traditional centers and explaining how the prevailing knowledge of non-Western societies has modified or contributed to the dominant global science as it is currently understood. Revealing the interplay between science and the wider culture, the Companion includes entries on topics such as minority groups, art, religion, and science's practical applications. One hundred biographies of the most iconic historic figures, chosen for their contributions to science and the interest of their lives, are also included. Above all The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science is a companion to world history: modern in coverage, generous in breadth, and cosmopolitan in scope. The volume's utility is enhanced by a thematic outline of the entire contents, a thorough system of cross-referencing, and a detailed index that enables the reader to follow a specific line of inquiry along various threads from multiple starting points. Each essay has numerous suggestions for further reading, all of which favor literature that is accessible to the general reader, and a bibliographical essay provides a general overview of the scholarship in the field. Lastly, as a contribution to the visual appeal of the Companion, over 100 black-and-white illustrations and an eight-page color section capture the eye and spark the imagination.

Author : René Dugas
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486173372
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Mechanics written by René Dugas and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A remarkable work which will remain a document of the first rank for the historian of mechanics." — Louis de Broglie In this masterful synthesis and summation of the science of mechanics, Rene Dugas, a leading scholar and educator at the famed Ecole Polytechnique in Paris, deals with the evolution of the principles of general mechanics chronologically from their earliest roots in antiquity through the Middle Ages to the revolutionary developments in relativistic mechanics, wave and quantum mechanics of the early 20th century. The present volume is divided into five parts: The first treats of the pioneers in the study of mechanics, from its beginnings up to and including the sixteenth century; the second section discusses the formation of classical mechanics, including the tremendously creative and influential work of Galileo, Huygens and Newton. The third part is devoted to the eighteenth century, in which the organization of mechanics finds its climax in the achievements of Euler, d'Alembert and Lagrange. The fourth part is devoted to classical mechanics after Lagrange. In Part Five, the author undertakes the relativistic revolutions in quantum and wave mechanics. Writing with great clarity and sweep of vision, M. Dugas follows closely the ideas of the great innovators and the texts of their writings. The result is an exceptionally accurate and objective account, especially thorough in its accounts of mechanics in antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the important contributions of Jordanus of Nemore, Jean Buridan, Albert of Saxony, Nicole Oresme, Leonardo da Vinci, and many other key figures. Erudite, comprehensive, replete with penetrating insights, AHistory of Mechanics is an unusually skillful and wide-ranging study that belongs in the library of anyone interested in the history of science.

Author : Clifford Truesdell
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813911342
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Great Scientists of Old as Heretics in "the Scientific Method" written by Clifford Truesdell and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Page-Barbour Lectures of 1985, University of Virginia.

Author : Clifford Truesdell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Author : James Hole
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
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Download or read book An Essay on the History & Management of Literary, Scientific, & Mechanics' Institutions ... written by James Hole and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: