Ships and science the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revolution, 1600-1800
"In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Traité du navire - Treatise of the ship] as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new di...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press
2007.
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Transformations : studies in the history of science and technology. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b31793307*spi |
| Sumario: | "In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Traité du navire - Treatise of the ship] as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xxiv, 441 p. : il |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | Incluye referencias bibliográficas (p. 377-428) e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9780262272582 |
