Book ID: CBB000610295

The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (2005)

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Steele, Brett D. (Editor)
Dorland, Tamera (Editor)


MIT Press
Publication date: 2005
Language: English


Publication Date: 2005
Physical Details: vi + 397 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index

Description Partial Contents:


Reviewed By

Review Forge, John (2007) Review of "The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment". Metascience: An International Review Journal for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science (p. 327). unapi

Review Hollister-Short, Graham (2007) Review of "The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 174). unapi

Essay Review Thomas, Mary M. (2006) [Essay review]. Aestimatio: Critical Reviews in the History of Science (pp. 62-71). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Mahoney, Michael S. (2005) Charting the Globe and Tracking the Heavens: Navigations and the Sciences in the Early Modern Era. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 221). unapi

Chapter Kaiserfeld, Thomas (2005) Chemistry in the War Machine: Saltpeter Production in Eighteenth-Century Sweden. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 275). unapi

Chapter Mauskopf, Seymour H. (2005) Chemistry in the Arsenal: State Regulation and Scientific Methodology of Gunpowder in Eighteenth-Century England and France. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 293). unapi

Chapter Cormack, Lesley B. (2005) Mathematics and Empire: The Military Impulse and the Scientific Revolution. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 181). unapi

Chapter Alexander, Amir (2005) Harriot and Dee on Exploration and Mathematics: Did Scientific Imagery Make for New Scientific Practice?. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 205). unapi

Chapter Buchanan, Brenda J. (2005) “The Art and Mystery of Making Gunpowder”: The English Experience in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 233). unapi

Chapter Steele, Brett D. (2005) Military “Progress” and Newtonian Science in the Age of Enlightenment. In: The Heirs of Archimedes: Science and the Art of War through the Age of Enlightenment (p. 361). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Cressy, David
Anastasopoulos, Antonis
Black, Jeremy
Bredekamp, Horst
Cormack, Lesley B.
Fischer, Hanspeter
Journals
Anthropozoologica
Bulletin of the Scientific Instrument Society
Cartographica Helvetica
Foundations of Science
Journal of Asian Studies
Journal of Military History
Publishers
Oxford University Press
Bibliothèque nationale de France
Brepols
Greenwood Press
MIT Press
Palgrave Macmillan
Concepts
Science and war; science and the military
Military technology
Mathematics
Cartography
Geometry
Technology
People
Galilei, Galileo
Henry IV, King of France
Hood, Thomas
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Louis XV, King of France
Mordente, Fabrizio
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17th century
18th century
16th century
19th century
15th century
Renaissance
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Europe
Italy
Great Britain
Ottoman Empire
France
Tuscany (Italy)
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