Essays on the History of Mechanics

In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto
Herausgegeben:Becchi, Antonio; Corradi, Massimo; Foce, Federico; Pedemonte, Orietta

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Birkhäuser / Birkhäuser Basel / Springer, Basel
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-0348-9435-7
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 403g
• ISBN-13: 9783034894357
• ISBN-10: 303489435X
• Artikelnr.: 39242518

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.