Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
by Larrie D. Ferreiro
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"In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the scientific revolution. Using Bouguer's work [Traite 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.Tags
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Larrie D. Ferreiro is a naval architect and historian who served for more than thirty-five years in the US Navy, the US Coast Guard, and the Department of Defense. An Adjunct Professor of Engineering and History at George Mason University, he is the author of the award-winning Ships and Science (MIT Press) and Brothers in Arms, a Pulitzer Prize show more finalist in History. show less
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- Nonfiction, History, Science & Nature, Technology, General Nonfiction
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- 623.8 — Applied science & technology Engineering Military Vehicles: Land, Air, & Sea Naval architecture; Shipbuilding
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- VM156 .F47 — Naval Science Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering Naval architecture. Shipbuilding. Marine engineering
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