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Essays on the History of Mechanics

In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto

Erschienen am 20.06.2003
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ISBN/EAN: 9783764314767
Sprache: Englisch
Umfang: 256 S.
Einband: gebundenes Buch

Beschreibung

InhaltsangabeTruesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures.- Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics.- Coping With Error in the History of Mechanics.- The Development of the Deformation Method.- The Mechanics of Timbrel Vaults: a Historical Outline.- The Use of a Particular Form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults (1650-1750).- Rose Windows.- Early Theories of Vectors.- The Ancients' Inferno: The Slow and Tortuous Development of 'Newtonian' Principles of Motion in the Eighteenth Century.- A Historical Survey of Impact Theories.- What Can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of Fine Arts?.- Index of Names.

Inhalt

Truesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures.- Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics.- Coping With Error in the History of Mechanics.- The Development of the Deformation Method.- The Mechanics of Timbrel Vaults.- The Use of a Particular Form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults.- Rose Windows.- Early Theories of Vectors.- The Slow and Tortuous Development of ''Newtonian'' Principles of Motion in the Eighteenth Century.- A Historical Survey of Impact Theories.- What Can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of Fine Arts?

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