{"product_id":"essays-on-the-history-of-mechanics-in-memory-of-clifford-ambrose-truesdell-and-edoardo-benvenuto-9783764314767","title":"Essays on the History of Mechanics: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe history of mechanics, and more particularly, the history of mechanics applied to constructions, constitutes a field of research that is relatively recent. This volume, together with the recent publication \"Towards a History of Construction\", is intended as an homage to the two eminent scholars who made a determinant contribution to the history of mechanics: Edoardo Benvenuto and Clifford Truesdell.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTruesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures.- Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics.- Coping With Error in the History of Mechanics.- The Development of the Deformation Method.- The Mechanics of Timbrel Vaults: a Historical Outline.- The Use of a Particular Form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults (1650-1750).- Rose Windows.- Early Theories of Vectors.- The Ancients’ Inferno: The Slow and Tortuous Development of ‘Newtonian’ Principles of Motion in the Eighteenth Century.- A Historical Survey of Impact Theories.- What Can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of Fine Arts?.- Index of Names.","brand":"Birkhauser Verlag AG","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53517609042263,"sku":"9783764314767","price":44.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/essays-on-the-history-of-mechanics-in-memory-of-clifford-ambrose-truesdell-and-edoardo-benvenuto-9783764314767","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}