Ships and Science - Table of Contents

December 2006
7 x 9, 432 pp., 92 illus.
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ISBN-13:
978-0-262-06259-6

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Ships and Science
The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800
Larrie D. Ferreiro

	Preface Sample Chapter - Download PDF (70 KB)	vii

	Terms, Symbols, Units of Measure, and Money	xix

	Prologue: Down From the Mountain	1

1.	"Mere Carpenters"	23

2.	Deriving the Dérive	51

3.	A Shock to the System	113

4.	Inventing the Metacenter	187

5.	The Great Works	259

6.	Genius and Engineering	279

	Epilogue: Promised Land	307

	Appendix: Personages	311

	Notes	323

	Bibliography	377

	Index Sample Chapter - Download PDF (69 KB)	429

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