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Book The Mechanical Sciences in Antiquity

Download or read book The Mechanical Sciences in Antiquity written by Massimo Corradi and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2008-11-06 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The origin of the mechanical sciences can be traced to the studies of Aristotle and Archimedes, who set forth the principles that are the basis of mechanics. However, development in successive centuries advanced but slowly, with notable progress made during the Middle Ages, and would find its complete formal development and linguistic expression only in the Renaissance.The use of elementary static systems followed different courses, tied more to empiricism and constructive technologies than to theoretical science, resolving the problems that were mentioned from time to time by the architects and builders of antiquity. Such problems, formulated from the constructive practices of architecture and by the machines for building, were resolved using those very mechanical devices that are at the basis of the discipline, without a precise knowledge of their general semantic value, but rather with a awareness of statics and constructive empiricism that validated the choices made on the building site.

Book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science written by Liba Taub and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.

Book The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity

Download or read book The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity written by A. G. Drachmann and published by Copenhagen : Munksgaard ; Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Mechanics

    Book Details:
  • Author : René Dugas
  • Publisher : Courier Corporation
  • Release : 1988-01-01
  • ISBN : 0486656322
  • Pages : 672 pages

Download or read book A History of Mechanics written by René Dugas and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1988-01-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monumental study traces the history of mechanical principles chronologically from their earliest roots in antiquity through the Middle Ages to the revolutions in relativistic mechanics and wave and quantum mechanics of the early 20th century. Contributions of ancient Greeks, Leonardo, Galileo, Kepler, Lagrange, many other important figures. 116 black-and-white illustrations.

Book Greek and Roman Technology  A Sourcebook

Download or read book Greek and Roman Technology A Sourcebook written by Andrew N. Sherwood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-10-04 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.

Book The Renaissance of Mechanics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Roy Laird
  • Publisher : Springer Nature
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 3031455053
  • Pages : 426 pages

Download or read book The Renaissance of Mechanics written by Walter Roy Laird and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Greek Science In Antiquity

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  • Author : Marshall Clagett
  • Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
  • Release : 2016-03-28
  • ISBN : 1786258579
  • Pages : 396 pages

Download or read book Greek Science In Antiquity written by Marshall Clagett and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2016-03-28 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ignored this aspect of Greek science. The importance of the course of Greek science in late antiquity is evident, for it was during this period that much of the Greek scientific corpus was put into the form in which it passed to the medieval Latin West. We are justified, then, in considering this volume as an introduction to medieval and early modern science—that science being considered as a transformation of Greek science.

Book The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity

Download or read book The Mechanical Technology of Greek and Roman Antiquity written by Aage Gerhardt Drachmann and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Mechanical Inventions

Download or read book A History of Mechanical Inventions written by Abbott Payson Usher and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1954-01-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This revised and updated classic explores the importance of technological innovation in the cultural and economic history of the West. Topics include technology of textile manufacture from primitive times, water wheels and wind mills, clocks and watches, and invention of printing. "Without peer in its field." — American Scientist.

Book Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution

Download or read book Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution written by Walter Roy Laird and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.

Book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science  Arts  Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge

Download or read book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science Arts Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge written by Alexander JAMIESON (LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science  Arts  Manufactures  and Miscellaneous Knowledge     Illustrated with     Engravings  and Maps

Download or read book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science Arts Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge Illustrated with Engravings and Maps written by Alexander Jamieson (A.M., LL.D.) and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science  Arts  Manufactures  and Miscellaneous Knowledge Comprising the Pure Sciences of Mathematics  Geometry  Arithmetic  Algebra   c   the Mixed Sciences of Mechanics  Hydrostatics  Pneumatics  Optics  and Astronomy  Experimental Philosophy     by Alexander Jamieson

Download or read book A Dictionary of Mechanical Science Arts Manufactures and Miscellaneous Knowledge Comprising the Pure Sciences of Mathematics Geometry Arithmetic Algebra c the Mixed Sciences of Mechanics Hydrostatics Pneumatics Optics and Astronomy Experimental Philosophy by Alexander Jamieson written by and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mechanical Philosophy  Including the Properties of Matter  Elementary Statics  Dynamics  Hydrostatics  Hydrodynamics  Pneumatics  Practical Mechanics  and the Steam Engine

Download or read book Mechanical Philosophy Including the Properties of Matter Elementary Statics Dynamics Hydrostatics Hydrodynamics Pneumatics Practical Mechanics and the Steam Engine written by Walter Mitchell (Assistant Hospitaller of St. Bartholomew's Hospital.) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy

Download or read book The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy written by Sylvia Berryman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-06 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water, sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek pneumatic theory, with detailed analysis of thinkers such as Aristotle, Archimedes, and Hero of Alexandria. Her book shows scholars of ancient Greek philosophy why it is necessary to pay attention to mechanics, and shows historians of science why the differences between ancient and modern reactions to mechanics are not as great as was generally thought.