Essays on the History of Mechanics
Subtitle: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto
By: edited by Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte
Contributors: Corradi, Massimo; Foce, Federico; Pedemonte, Orietta
Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel; Imprint: Birkhäuser
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Basel
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9783034894357; 9783034880916
Subjects: Mechanics; Science; History; Mechanical engineering; Civil engineering
Description: 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.
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Table of contents: title: Truesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures; title: Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics; title: Coping With Error in the History of Mechanics; title: The Development of the Deformation Method; title: The Mechanics of Timbrel Vaults; title: The Use of a Particular Form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults; title: Rose Windows; title: Early Theories of Vectors; title: The Slow and Tortuous Development of 'Newtonian' Principles of Motion in the Eighteenth Century; title: A Historical Survey of Impact Theories; title: What Can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of Fine Arts?.