Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by Larrie D. Ferreiro
Book Description – Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800 (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Product Details Series: Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology Hardcover: 472 pages
Publisher: The MIT Press (November 3, 2006) Language: English
ISBN-10: 0262062593
ISBN-13: 978-0262062596
Product Dimensions: 7 x 0.8 x 9 inches
Review
Ships and Science is a meticulously researched, scholarly book…Any maritime historian or maritime architecture scholar should benefit from reading this erudite, thought-provoking book.
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Louis Arthur Norton
The Northern Mariner)
This volume should be required reading for all students of naval architecture.
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Marine Technology)
Naval architecture has been a rarity among the sciences, having no written history worthy of the name — until now. In this book, Larrie Ferreiro has produced a work worthy of the discipline he has practiced and studied with equal ability. For the first time the many and varied theoretical and practical traditions of European ship design have been analyzed as part of the scientific and intellectual world in which they developed. The result is a work of the highest importance, linking science, ships, and sea power.
(Andrew Lambert, Laughton Professor of Naval History, King’s College London)
This is a superb volume, and is likely to be regarded in coming years as the starting point of the now fast growing study of the foundations of applied science and engineering.
(Fred M. Walker
Mariner’s Mirror)
Highly recommended.
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Choice)
This important book offers counterpoint to Kenneth Alder’s Engineering the Revolution. With great skill and imagination, Langins exploits an eighteenth-century controversy over fortification design to illuminate the nature of engineering, the tension between theory and practice, the contrast between the lone genius and institutionalized professionalism, and the relationship between engineering and revolution.
(Alex Roland, Professor of History, Duke University)
About the Author
Larrie D. Ferreiro is a naval architect and historian. He trained and worked as a naval architect in the U.S., British, and French navies and the U.S. Coast Guard, and has served as technical expert for the International Maritime Organization. He has a Ph.D. in the History of Science and Technology from Imperial College, London.
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