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Machines and Signs

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 17)

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-5407-2

ISBN: 978-94-007-5406-5

Publisher: Springer Netherlands - Springer Journals

Sep 9, 2012

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Chapter 1Introduction

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 1 –8

[Interest among scholars in the history of science and technology (and, particularly, in classical mechanics) is today very high and still increasing. In this preliminary chapter, some general observations and a very short “state of the art” of the history of technology, as a background for the...
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Chapter 2Motivations of the History of Technique

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 9 –17

[The study of the history of technique, and, in particular, of mechanics can be very useful for a complete and systematic survey of the technical development of today. The history of mechanics is of great interest from many points of view: the most important could be classified as the following:...
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Chapter 3The First Steps

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 19 –30

[Prehistoric man was the first “designer”: to kill an animal, he needed a branch of a tree. In this operation, the abovementioned prehistoric man searched for a branch with a form useful for the necessary function (in the modern “methodic design” such an operation is called “design for function”,...
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Chapter 4Renaissance

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 31 –69

[It is significant to observe that, in the present work, we focus on the period of time corresponding to the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with some linkages to the first years of the seventeenth century. That significance lies in the sudden discovery and rapid growth of the idea of...
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Chapter 5The Eighteenth Century

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 71 –118

[The eighteenth century was dominated, from the point of view of technical drawing, by some important events, such as the activity of the mathematician Gaspard Monge (the father of Descriptive Geometry), the first steps of industry and the utilization of orthographic projections, the first...
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Chapter 6The Nineteenth Century

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 119 –156

[Some important events related to the drawing of machines in the nineteenth century are as follows:]
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Chapter 7The Twentieth Century

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 157 –209

[The twentieth century is characterized by several events relative to technical drawing. The most important correspond to the paragraphs of the present chapter as follows.]
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Chapter 8Archives of Historical Drawings

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 211 –225

[Historical drawings, as mentioned in many previous chapters, are one of the most important witnesses of technical realization in past times. Therefore, archives of ancient drawings are the best “photography” of technical development in all times. With an organic collection of historical drawings...
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Chapter 9The Critical Observation of Historical Drawings

Rovida, Edoardo

Pages: 227 –247

[The archives of historical drawings represent the complex of all realized constructive solutions in all technical fields. Therefore, the complex of all historical drawings represents the database of all human constructions and can be utilized to know and to study, from several points of view,...

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