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Philosophers and machines / Otto Mayr, editor.
LIBRA - Rare TJ14 .P47 Adams copy
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Spangenburg, Ray, 1939- History of science
- History of science
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Machinery--Philosophy.
- Machinery.
- Machinery--History.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Adams, Mark B. (former owner) (autograph) (Adams copy)
- Physical Description:
- 193 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Science History Publications, 1976.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Otto Mayr
- The earliest stages in the evolution of the Still / Martin Levey
- Egyptian water clocks / A. Pogo
- How was the temple of Eupalinus aligned? / June Goodfield & Stephen Toulmin
- Eupalinos and his tunnel / B.L. Van Der Waerden
- The tunnel of Eupalinus and the tunnel problem of Hero of Alexandria / Alfred Burns
- The arsenal in Piraeus and the ancient building rules / William Hovgaard
- La Meunerie de Barbegal (France) et les roues hydrauliques chez las anciens et au moyen age / C.L. Sagui
- Carlo Darti on the invention of eyeglasses / Edward Rosen
- Hero's pneumatica : a study of its transmission and influence / Marie Boas
- Floating docks in the sixteenth century / George Sarton
- The science of gunnery in Elizabethan England / Henry J. Webb
- The first epicycloidal gearteeth / Robert S. Woodbury
- Latent heat and the invention of the Watt engine / Donald Fleming
- Sadi Carnot and the steam engine engineers / Milton Kerker
- Sadi Carnot and the Cagnard engine / Thomas S. Kuhn
- Leopardi and the machine age / Hilda L. Norman
- The background of Tennyson's "Airy navies" / Clark Emery
- Maxwell and the origin of cybernetics / Otto Mayr
- Hertz and the technological significance of electromagnetic waves / Charles Susskind.
- Notes:
- "©Science History Publications 1976"--verso of title page.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center copy gifted by Dr. Mark B. Adams in 2018.
- ISBN:
- 0882020447
- OCLC:
- 2295019
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