The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux
Subtitle: Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the 20th Century (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: July 11, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 417
ISBN-13: 9781402055980
Subjects: History of engineering & technology; Mechanical Engineering & Materials; Technology & Engineering; Technology & Industrial Arts; Science/Mathematics; History; Industrial Design - General; Da Vinci; Reuleaux; Technology / Engineering / Mechanical; history of engineering; history of machines; history of mechanism; Mechanical
Description: "This book examines the evolution of machine design methodology from the Renaissance to the Age of Machines in the 19th century. This premise is based in part on the work of the da Vinci scholar Ladislao Reti who translated the last discovered work of Leonardo da Vinci in 1967. In the Codex Madrid, Reti found evidence that Leonardo planned to write a book on basic machine elements and compared the great artist-engineer's drawings to the work of 19th C. machine theorist Franz Reuleaux of Berlin. Reuleaux is credited with classifying the basic elements of machine design and also enumerating six basic classes of mechanisms to change motion from one form to another. Moon's book carries Reti's thesis further and provides detailed analysis, comparing design concepts of engineers of the 15th century Renaissance and the 19th century age of machines from a workshop tradition to the rational scientific discipline used today."--Jacket.