The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment
2005
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Main title:
The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment / Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, editors.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : MIT Press, c2005.
Collation:
[vii], 397 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Facing the new technology : gunpowder defenses in military architecture before the trace Italienne, 1350-1500 / Kelly DeVriesThe French reluctance to adopt firearms technology in the early modern period / Frederic J. BaumgartnerGunpowder and the changing military order : the Islamic gunpowder empires, ca. 1450-ca. 1650 / Barton C. HackerBehind the Turkish war machine : gunpowder technology and war industry in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700 / Gabor AgostonThe Mary Rose : a tale of two centuries / Alexzandra HildredMathematics and empire : the military impulse and the scientific revolution / Lesley B. CormackHarriot and Dee on exploration and mathematics : did scientific imagery make for new scientific practice? / Amir AlexanderCharting the globe and tracking the heavens : navigation and the sciences in the early modern era / Michael S. Mahoney"The art and mystery of making gunpowder" : the English experience in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Brenda J. BuchananChemistry in the war machine : saltpeter production in eighteenth-century Sweden / Thomas KaiserfeldChemistry in the arsenal : state regulation and scientific methodology of gunpowder in eighteenth-century England and France / Seymour H. MauskopfEighteenth-century French fortification theory after Vauban : the case of Montalembert / Janis LanginsMilitary "progress" and Newtonian science in the age of enlightenment / Brett D. Steele.
ISBN:
026219516X (alk paper)
Dewey class:
623.094
LC class:
U43.E95U43HEI
Language:
English
BRN:
520