Instrumental in War : Science, Research, and Instruments: Between Knowledge and the World.
Annotation.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autor principal: | |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Leiden : Boston :
BRILL, Brill USA, Inc. [distributor]
Feb. 2005 ;
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Colección: | History of Warfare Ser. ;
vol. 28. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Volume Contributions; List of Contributors; Introduction (Steven A. Walton); Chapter One Mathematical Instruments and the Creation of the Scientific Military Gentleman (Steven A. Walton); Chapter Two Surveying and the Cromwellian Reconquest of Ireland (William T. Lynch); Chapter Three Like Clockwork? Clausewitzian Friction and the Scientific Siege in the Age of Vauban (Jamel Ostwald); Chapter Four Calorimeters and Crushers: The Development of Instruments for Measuring the Behavior of Military Powder (Seymour H. Mauskopf).