Screen LibraryAncient Engineers' Inventions : Precursors of the Present /
This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii,...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | Second edition. |
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History of Mechanism and Machine Science,
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44476-5 |
| Summary: |
This book describes the inventions and designs of ancient engineers who are the precursors of the present. The period ranges mainly from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with several exceptions. Many of the oldest inventions are documented by archaeological finds, often very little known, mainly from Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae and reveal a surprising modernity in their conception. Most of the inventions presented in the first four parts of the book were conceived up to the late Roman Empire and may be considered as milestones, each in their respective field. The fifth part concentrates on more re |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319444765 |
| Index Number: | TA174 |
| CLC: | TB21 |
| Contents: | Premise: Representing and Measuring the Environment -- A premise: it all started with a drawing -- I.1 Elevations, Plan and Sections -- I.2 Protohistoric Drafting machine for the clay tablets engraving -- I.3 Examples of planimetries from the IV millennium B.C. to the I century A.D. -- I.4 Ancient Units -- 1. Measuring Mass -- Introduction -- 1.1 The balance scale -- 1.2 The steelyard balance -- Observations -- 2 Measuring Distance and Slope -- Introduction -- 2.1 Jacob s staff -- 2.2 Range finders -- 2.3 The Astrolabe -- 2.4 The dioptre by Heron -- 2.5 The ancient odometers -- Observations |