The heirs of Archimedes : science and the art of war through the Age of Enlightenment /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
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| Series: | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Table of 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.