Essays on the History of Mechanics In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto
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...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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Basel
Birkhäuser
2003, 2003
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Edition: | 1st ed. 2003 |
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Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 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: 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