How Mechanics Shaped the Modern World [E-Book] : A Contextual Introduction to Concepts and Applications / by David H. Allen.
This updated and augmented second edition covers the history of mechanics in such a way as to explain how this all-important discipline shaped our world. Like the first edition, Dr. Allen presents the material in an engaging, accessible manner, with many historic insights and thorough explanations o...
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Personal Name(s): | Allen, David H., author |
Edition: |
2nd edition 2023. |
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Springer,
2023
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Physical Description: |
XXIII, 464 pages 453 illustrations, 334 illustrations in color (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783031277498 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-031-27749-8 |
Subject (LOC): |
- Chapter 1 Mechanics and Our Ancestors
- Chapter 2 The Greeks
- Chapter 3 The Romans
- Chapter 4 Mechanics in the Middle Ages
- Chapter 5 The Artistic Renaissance
- Chapter 6 Finding Our Way
- Chapter 7 Mechanics Reborn
- Chapter 8 Music and Measuring
- Chapter 9 Continuum Mechanics, Art and Structures
- Chapter 10 Weather
- Chapter 11 Life Cycles
- Chapter 12 The Quality of Our Lives
- Chapter 13 Mechanics Today
- Chapter 14 Relativity
- Chapter 15 Quantum Mechanics
- Chapter 16 Bio mechanics
- Chapter 17 The Future of Mechanics.