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245 04 a| The heirs of Archimedes :b| science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment /c| Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, editors.;

300 a| vi, 397 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

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The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment / Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland, editors.

Other author	Steele, Brett D.
Other author	Dorland, Tamera.
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Description	vi, 397 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Military art and science--Europe. --History. Science--History. Technology--History.

Series	Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. ^A464634
Contents	Facing the new technology : gunpowder defenses in military architecture before the trace Italienne, 1350-1500 / Kelly DeVries -- The French reluctance to adopt firearms technology in the early modern period / Frederic J. Baumgartner -- Gunpowder and the changing military order : the Islamic gunpowder empires, ca. 1450-ca. 1650 / Barton C. Hacker -- Behind the Turkish war machine : gunpowder technology and war industry in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700 / Gabor Agoston -- The Mary Rose : a tale of two centuries / Alexzandra Hildred -- Mathematics and empire : the military impulse and the scientific revolution / Lesley B. Cormack -- Harriot and Dee on exploration and mathematics : did scientific imagery make for new scientific practice? / Amir Alexander -- Charting the globe and tracking the heavens : navigation and the sciences in the early modern era / Michael S. Mahoney -- "The art and mystery of making gunpowder" : the English experience in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Brenda J. Buchanan -- Chemistry in the war machine : saltpeter production in eighteenth-century Sweden / Thomas Kaiserfeld -- Chemistry in the arsenal : state regulation and scientific methodology of gunpowder in eighteenth-century England and France / Seymour H. Mauskopf -- Eighteenth-century French fortification theory after Vauban : the case of Montalembert / Janis Langins -- Military "progress" and Newtonian science in the age of enlightenment / Brett D. Steele.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	2004055164
ISBN	026219516X (alk. paper)

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