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Essays on the History of Mechanics

In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto

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Editors:
  1. Antonio Becchi

    1. Facoltà di Architettura, Genova, Italy

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  2. Massimo Corradi

    1. Facoltà di Architettura, Genova, Italy

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  3. Federico Foce

    1. Facoltà di Architettura, Genova, Italy

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  4. Orietta Pedemonte

    1. Facoltà di Architettura, Genova, Italy

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The 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.

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8
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  2. Truesdell and the History of the Theory of Structures

    • Jacques Heyman
    Pages 9-20

  3. Development of Studies in the History of Elasticity Theory and Structural Mechanics

    • Gleb K. Mikhailov
    Pages 21-38

  4. Coping with Error in the History of Mechanics

    • Louis L. Bucciarelli
    Pages 39-56

  5. The Development of the Deformation Method

    • Karl-Eugen Kurrer
    Pages 57-87

  6. The Mechanics of Timbrel Vaults: A Historical Outline

    • Santiago Huerta
    Pages 89-134

  7. The Use of a Particular form of the Parallelogram Law of Forces for the Building of Vaults (1650–1750)

    • Patricia Radelet-de Grave
    Pages 135-163

  8. Rose Windows

    • Jacques Heyman
    Pages 165-178

  9. Early Theories of Vectors

    • Sandro Caparrini
    Pages 179-198

  10. The Ancients’ Inferno: The Slow and Tortuous Development of ‘Newtonian’ Principles of Motion in the Eighteenth Century

    • Giulio Maltese
    Pages 199-221

  11. A Historical Survey of Impact Theories

    • Piero Villaggio
    Pages 223-234

  12. What Can the Historian of Science Learn from the Historian of the Fine Arts?

    • David Speiser
    Pages 235-249

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 251-256
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Facoltà di Architettura, Genova, Italy

    Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Essays on the History of Mechanics

  • Book Subtitle: In Memory of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell and Edoardo Benvenuto

  • Editors: Antonio Becchi, Massimo Corradi, Federico Foce, Orietta Pedemonte

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8091-6

  • Publisher: Birkhäuser Basel

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Basel AG 2003

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-7643-1476-7Published: 20 June 2003

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-0348-9435-7Published: 09 November 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-0348-8091-6Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 256

  • Topics: History of Science, Solid Mechanics, Classical Mechanics, Civil Engineering

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