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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Ferreiro, Larrie D. Ships and science. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2007 (OCoLC)607920017 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Larrie D Ferreiro |
| ISBN: | 9780262062596 0262062593 9780262514156 026251415X |
| OCLC Number: | 67346322 |
| Description: | xxiv, 441 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Terms, Symbols, Units of Measure and Money -- Down From The Mountain -- Mere Carpenters -- Deriving the Derive -- A Shock to the System -- Inventing the Metacenter -- The Great Workds --- Genius and Engineering -- Promised Land -- Personages. |
| Series Title: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press) |
| Responsibility: | Larrie D. Ferreiro. |
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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.
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"This volume should be required reading for all students of naval architecture." Marine Technology "This is a superb volume, and is likely to be regarded in coming years as the starting point of the now fast growing study of the foundations of applied science and engineering." Fred M. Walker Mariner's Mirror "Highly recommended." Choice "This is a superb volume... to be regarded in coming years as [a] starting point for the study of applied science and engineering." Mariner's Mirror "This volume should be required reading for all students of naval architecture". Marine Technology Read more...
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