Author: Hero (of Alexandria.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria
Author: Hero (of Alexandria.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria, from the Original Greek. Translated [by J. G. Greenwood] For, and Edited by B. Woodcroft
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Author: British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Catalogue of Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
The Industrial Revolution - Lost in Antiquity - Found in the Renaissance
Author: Cort McLean Johns Ph.D. - HSGPublisher: KDP Amazon
ISBN: 1638214611
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 488
Book Description
Historians of Technology and Humanist Industrial Archaeologists have failed to include the larger contribution and influence of Ctesibius’ compressor-driven Hydraulis with its pneumatic pumps, keyboard, and organ pipes in the path of critical preparatory events leading up to the ‘Latent’ Industrial Revolution. One should also realize that Ctesibius had all the parts and sub-assemblies on hand to invent the first Steam Hydraulis or Calliope, as illustrated on the front book cover of this work. From the 'Fertile Crescent' of the Persian Empire to the Hellenistic Library of Alexandria, Vitruvius writing brought the Hydraulis to the Abbey of St. Gall in 1414 during the Renaissance. Its path then took it through Italy, Germany, and the Paris of Louis XIV along the Arch of Industrial Reawakening. This was the Hydraulis 2-millennium path from Antiquity to its return reigniting the 'Latent' Industrial Revolution.
The Industrial Revolution - Lost in Antiquity - Found in the Renaissance
Author: Cort MacLean Johns, Ph.D.-HSGPublisher: Cort MacLean Johns Ph.D.- HSG
ISBN: 9463458441
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 478
Book Description
Ever increasing research evidence continues to mount. Having started my research on the connection of the Hydraulis to the roots of the more recent Industrial Revolution at the University of St. Gallen in 1989 over 30 years ago, I continue to identify additional support for it. We do not know whether the beginnings of an Industrial Revolution in Hellenistic Greece would have continued if not cut off by the Roman Empire's conquests. Neither do we know whether the more recent (latent) Industrial Revolution could have risen up again in the 17th-century without Vitruvius or Hero of Alexander's preserved writings. The point of this book is to emphasize with new findings that had the Romans not stopped the growth of science and technology in the Hellenistic Period that it would have likely continued to develop into a full-fledged Industrial Revolution. Secondly, the more recent Industrial Revolution borrowed heavily on the technology and science of the Hellenistic Period. In the true sense of the "Renaissance" 17th-century industrial progress largely picked up the written remnants of Antiquity to be able to continue on after a centuries long caesura.
Pneumatica
Author: Hero of AlexandriaPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781519729002
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Hero (or Heron) of Alexandria (c. 10-70 AD) was an ancient Greek mathematician and engineer who was active in his native city of Alexandria during the height of the Roman Empire. He is considered the greatest experimenter of antiquity and his work is representative of the Hellenistic scientific tradition. Hero published a well recognized description of a steam-powered device called an aeolipile (hence sometimes called a "Hero engine"). Among his most famous inventions was a windwheel, constituting the earliest instance of wind harnessing on land. He is also said to have been a follower of the Atomists. Much of Hero's original writings and designs have been lost, but some of his works were preserved in Arab manuscripts.It is almost certain that Hero taught at the Musaeum which once included the famous Library of Alexandria, because most of his writings appear as lecture notes for courses in mathematics, mechanics, physics and pneumatics. Although the field was not formalized until the 20th century, it is thought that the work of Hero, his "programmable" automated devices in particular, represents some of the first formal research into cybernetics. The Pneumatica, or Pneumatics of Hero of Alexandria include descriptions of machines working on air, steam or water pressure, including the hydraulis or water organ.
Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator
Author: Keith HoustonPublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393882152
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
The hidden history of the pocket calculator—a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon—and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life. Starting with hands, abacus, and slide rule, humans have always reached for tools to simplify math. Pocket-sized calculators ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, took us to the bottom of the ocean, and accompanied us to the moon. The pocket calculator changed our world, until it was supplanted by more modern devices that, in a cruel twist of irony, it helped to create. The calculator is dead; long live the calculator. In this witty mathematic and social history, Keith Houston transports readers from the nascent economies of the ancient world to World War II, where a Jewish engineer calculated for his life at Buchenwald, and into the technological arms race that led to the first affordable electronic pocket calculators. At every turn, Houston is a scholarly, affable guide to this global history of invention. Empire of the Sum will appeal to math lovers, history buffs, and anyone seeking to understand our trajectory to the computer age.
Gassendi the Atomist
Author: Lynn Sumida JoyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521522397
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
An account of Gassendi's life and work, illuminating the influence of humanism on seventeenth-century thought.
Author: Henry Sotheran Ltd