Ships and science
Subtitle: the birth of naval architecture in the scientific revolution, 1600-1800
By: Larrie D. Ferreiro.
Series: Transformations: studies in the history of science and technology; Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 441
ISBN-13: 9780262062596
Subjects: Naval architecture -- History -- 17th century; Naval architecture -- History -- 18th century; Mechanics -- History -- 17th century; Mechanics -- History -- 18th century; Shipbuilding -- History -- 17th century; Shipbuilding -- History -- 18th century
Description: "In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Traité du navire - Treatise of the ship] as a cornerstone, Ferreiro traces the intriguing and often unexpected development of this new discipline and describes its practical application to ship design in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries"--Jacket.