| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 397 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Military art and science -- Europe -- History.
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Military art and science. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Science -- History.
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Science. |
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Technology -- History.
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Technology. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Steele, Brett D.
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Dorland, Tamera.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Heirs of Archimedes. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005 026219516X (DLC) 2004055164 (OCoLC)55797897 |
| ISBN |
9780262284226 (electronic book) |
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0262284227 (electronic book) |
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142373002X (electronic book) |
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9781423730026 (electronic book) |
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