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Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Ships and Science The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution 16001800 - Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
Author: Larrie D. Ferreiro
"Naval architecture was born in the mountains of Peru, in the mind of a French astronomer named Pierre Bouguer who never built a ship in his life." So writes Larrie Ferreiro at the beginning of this pioneering work on the science of naval architecture. Bouguer's monumental book Traité du navire (Treatise of the Ship) founded a disc...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780262062596
ISBN-10: 0262062593
Publication Date: 12/1/2006
Pages: 432
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Publisher: The MIT Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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