[PDF] Scientific Knowledge Of Spanish Military Engineers In The Seventeenth Century eBook

Author : Josep Lluis i Ginovart
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,82 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Electronic books
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The catenary arches were used in Spanish Art Nouveau architecture by Antoni Gaud√≠ (1852,Äì1926). The theory of the chain, in the shape of a hanging collar, was proposed by Robert Hooke (1676) and used by Christopher Wren in Saint Paul,Äôs dome (1675). British school modern mechanic theory was introduced in Spain by Spanish Bourbonic military engineers and also by the Catholic Scottish and Irish families during the eighteenth century. The assessment of some drawings of gunpowder warehouses, found in the collection of Mapas planos y Dibujos (MPD) of the General Archive of Simancas (Archivo General de Simancas, AGS) (AGS 2014), has revealed the use of the chain theory in Miguel Mar√≠n,Äôs projects for Barcelona (1731) and Tortosa (1733) and Juan de la Feri√©re ones in A Coru√±a (1736). A built evidence has also been found: the Carl√≥n wine cellars in Benicarl√≥, built by the O,ÄôConnors family from Ireland (1757). The analysis of these examples proved the theory of the chain arrival to Spain during the first half of the eighteenth century.

Author : George Dekoulis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 47,49 MB
Release : 2020-02-19
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1789239532

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This book, "Military Engineering", is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of the recent developments in the field of military engineering. The book comprises single chapters authored by various researchers and edited by an expert active in the physical sciences, engineering and technology research area. All chapters are complete in themselves but united under a common research study topic. This publication aims at providing a thorough overview of the latest research efforts by international authors on military engineering, and opening new possible research paths for further novel developments.

Author : David C. Lindberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 2003-03-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521572439

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The fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century.

Author : Feza Günergun
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 28,80 MB
Release : 2010-12-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9048199689

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This book explores the various historical and cultural aspects of scientific, medical and technical exchanges that occurred between central Europe and Asia. A number of papers investigate the printing, gunpowder, guncasting, shipbuilding, metallurgical and drilling technologies while others deal with mapping techniques, the adoption of written calculation and mechanical clocks as well as the use of medical techniques such as pulse taking and electrotherapy. While human mobility played a significant role in the exchange of knowledge, translating European books into local languages helped the introduction of new knowledge in mathematical, physical and natural sciences from central Europe to its periphery and to the Middle East and Asian cultures. The book argues that the process of transmission of knowledge whether theoretical or practical was not a simple and one-way process from the donor to the receiver as it is often admitted, but a multi-dimensional and complex cultural process of selection and transformation where ancient scientific and local traditions and elements. The book explores the issue from a different geopolitical perspective, namely not focusing on a singular recipient and several points of distribution, namely the metropolitan centres of science, medicine, and technology, but on regions that are both recipients and distributors and provides new perspectives based on newly investigated material for historical studies on the cross scientific exchanges between different parts of the world.

Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 37,12 MB
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1134262949

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The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.

Author : Ian Inkster
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 39,94 MB
Release : 2016-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1441132422

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This book focuses on the development of four key issues in the development of modern Spain; knowledge, manufacturing, energy and telecommunications, and public works. If technology transfer from advanced nations to less developed systems always worked, then the whole world would now be rich. That this is not the case is so obvious, we might well expect that the history of the processes, successes and failures of technology transfer across nations would be a very well-established field of enquiry. In fact, the theme is still a developing one, and the present Special Issue centres on the case of Spain as exemplary in many respects. The collected essays focus upon the four major themes of knowledge, manufacturing, energy, and telecommunications and public works. Essays range in time from the 18th century to the present time, from studies of espionage and early links between craftsmen and savants, to the institutions of technology (from training systems, to private enterprise activity, or patents), to case-studies of silk manufacture, shipbuilding, mining, paper-making, and pharmaceuticals. Each essay offers a broad variety of material to bring to bear on a major problem of world development, past, present, and future.

Author : Rafael López-García
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 27,37 MB
Release : 2023-06-24
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3031310756

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This volume collects contributions on leading figures in mechanism and machine science (MMS) from Spain and Ibero-America over the last two centuries. The contributions examine scientists whose work resulted in relevant technical-scientific achievements, with an impact on technology and science in the historical evolution of MMS fields, and with an influence on the development of society at large. Biographical notes describing the efforts and achievements of these persons are included as well, but a technical survey is the core of each chapter, offering a modern interpretation of their legacy.

Author : Shlomo Berger
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 26,73 MB
Release : 2006-03-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1402026285

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Zutot: Perspectives on Jewish Culture aims to fill a gap that has become more and more conspicuous among the wealth of scholarly periodicals in the field of Jewish Studies. Whereas existing journals provide space to medium - and large sized articles, they neglect the small but poignant contributions, which may be as important as the extended, detailed study. The yearbook Zutot serves as a platform for small but incisive contributions, and provides them with a distinct context. The substance of these contributions is derived from larger perspectives and, though not always presented in an exhaustive way, will have an impact on contemporary discussions. Zutot covers Jewish Culture in its broadest sense, i.e. encompassing various academic disciplines - literature, languages and linguistics, philosophy, art, sociology, politics and history - and reflects binary oppositions such as religious and secular, high and low, written and oral, male and female culture.

Author : Steven Walton
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 14,71 MB
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9047407032

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Research and instrumentation in warfare since 1500 demonstrates the rise of the scientific military, the complicated interaction with military institutions, and details of how scientists and engineers developed artillery and explosives, surveying and geophysics, pilot testing and siegework, and the role of national and university laboratories.