Essays on the History of Mechanics

In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto

Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

256 Seiten

2003 | 2003
Springer Basel (Verlag)
978-3-7643-1476-7 (ISBN)

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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 scholars who made a determinant contribution to the history of mechanics: Edoardo Benvenuto and Clifford Truesdell.

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.6.2003
Zusatzinfo	256 p.
Verlagsort	Basel
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	605 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Deformation • Elasticity • historian of science • History of Mechanics • Mechanics • Mechanik • Structural Mechanics
ISBN-10	3-7643-1476-1 / 3764314761
ISBN-13	978-3-7643-1476-7 / 9783764314767
Zustand	Neuware