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The heirs of Archimedes [science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment
MIT Press c2005

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Título:
The heirs of Archimedes [ Recurso electrónico] : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment / Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, editors
Editorial:
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2005
Descripción física:
vi, 397 p. : il
Mención de serie:
EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice
Contenido:
Facing the new technology : gunpowder defenses in military architecture before the trace Italienne, 1350-1500 / Kelly DeVries -- The French reluctance to adopt firearms technology in the early modern period / Frederic J. Baumgartner -- Gunpowder and the changing military order : the Islamic gunpowder empires, ca. 1450-ca. 1650 / Barton C. Hacker -- Behind the Turkish war machine : gunpowder technology and war industry in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700 / Gabor Agoston -- The Mary Rose : a tale of two centuries / Alexzandra Hildred -- Mathematics and empire : the military impulse and the scientific revolution / Lesley B. Cormack -- Harriot and Dee on exploration and mathematics : did scientific imagery make for new scientific practice? / Amir Alexander -- Charting the globe and tracking the heavens : navigation and the sciences in the early modern era / Michael S. Mahoney -- "The art and mystery of making gunpowder" : the English experience in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Brenda J. Buchanan -- Chemistry in the war machine : saltpeter production in eighteenth-century Sweden / Thomas Kaiserfeld -- Chemistry in the arsenal : state regulation and scientific methodology of gunpowder in eighteenth-century England and France / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Eighteenth-century French fortification theory after Vauban : the case of Montalembert / Janis Langins -- Military "progress" and Newtonian science in the age of enlightenment / Brett D. Steele
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Forma de acceso: World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780262284226
0262284227
142373002X
9781423730026
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