The Price of Admiralty

The Price of Admiralty
Title The Price of Admiralty PDF eBook
Author John Keegan
Publisher Penguin
Pages 401
Release 1990-02-01
Genre History
ISBN 0140096507

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Military historian John Keegan’s gripping history of naval warfare’s evolution. In The Price of Admirality, leading military historian John Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: the Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long and arduous Battle of the Atlantic. “The best military historian of our generation.”—Tom Clancy “The Price of Admirality stands alongside Mr. Keegan’s earlier works in its power to impart both the big and little pictures of war.”—The New York Times

Science and Polity in France

Science and Polity in France
Title Science and Polity in France PDF eBook
Author Charles Coulston Gillispie
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 615
Release 2009-01-10
Genre Science
ISBN 1400824613

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By the end of the eighteenth century, the French dominated the world of science. And although science and politics had little to do with each other directly, there were increasingly frequent intersections. This is a study of those transactions between science and state, knowledge and power--on the eve of the French Revolution. Charles Gillispie explores how the links between science and polity in France were related to governmental reform, modernization of the economy, and professionalization of science and engineering.

Science Reorganized

Science Reorganized
Title Science Reorganized PDF eBook
Author James Edward McClellan
Publisher Columbia University Press
Pages 456
Release 1985
Genre Computers
ISBN 9780231059961

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Ships and Science

Ships and Science
Title Ships and Science PDF eBook
Author Larrie D. Ferreiro
Publisher National Geographic Books
Pages 0
Release 2010-01-22
Genre Transportation
ISBN 026251415X

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The first book to portray the birth of naval architecture as an integral part of the Scientific Revolution, examining its development and application across the major shipbuilding nations of Europe. "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 discipline that defined not the rules for building a ship but the theories and tools to predict a ship's characteristics and performance before it was built. In Ships and Science, Ferreiro argues that the birth of naval architecture formed an integral part of the Scientific Revolution. Using Bouguer's work 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. Drawing on previously untapped primary-source and archival information, he places the development of naval architecture in the contexts of science, navy, and society, across the major shipbuilding nations of Britain, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Sweden, Denmark, and Italy. Ferreiro describes the formulation of the three major elements of ship theory (the science of explaining the physical behavior of a ship): maneuvering and sail theory, ship resistance and hydrodynamics, and stability theory. He considers the era's influential books on naval architecture and describes the professionalization of ship constructors that is the true legacy of this period. Finally, looking from the viewpoints of both the constructor and the naval administrator, he explains why the development of ship theory was encouraged, financed, and used in naval shipbuilding. A generous selection of rarely seen archival images accompanies the text.

The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century

The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century
Title The Role of the Scientific Societies in the Seventeenth Century PDF eBook
Author Martha Ornstein
Publisher Legare Street Press
Pages 0
Release 2022-10-27
Genre
ISBN 9781015885783

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