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Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine ScienceHomer (c. 800–c. 701 BCE)

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Homer (c. 800–c. 701 BCE) [Homer was certainly not a distinguished specialist in the field of MMS—at least not only. He was a great epic poet, perhaps the greatest of the western world. His two epics—the Iliad and the Odyssey, dealing with the siege and fall of Troy and the adventurous voyage of Odysseus (or Ulysses) back to Ithaca, his homeland, respectively—apart from the main narration, include important information on the scientific and technological knowledge of the era (c. 13th–12th BCE). Till fairly recently, it was thought that the said accounts were poetic conceptions only, however, research has proved that this information corresponds to real systems, operating according to the laws of physics, of which the people of the Mycenaean era seemed to have a thorough knowledge. Many of the technical achievements described are attributed to Hephaestus, the chief god-technician, who invented a great number of devices in the area of MMS. Enlisting and analyzing such cases, several of which have been investigated both numerically and experimentally by the author and his coworkers, provide a more or less clear picture of the state of the art in the Greek prehistory, i.e. the time span between the Mycenaean and the subsequent Geometric and Classical eras.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine ScienceHomer (c. 800–c. 701 BCE)

Part of the History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book Series (volume 38)
Editors: Ceccarelli, Marco; Fang, Yibing
Paipetis, S. A.
Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science — Jan 2, 2020
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Springer International Publishing
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© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
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978-3-030-32397-4
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85 –108
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10.1007/978-3-030-32398-1_5
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[Homer was certainly not a distinguished specialist in the field of MMS—at least not only. He was a great epic poet, perhaps the greatest of the western world. His two epics—the Iliad and the Odyssey, dealing with the siege and fall of Troy and the adventurous voyage of Odysseus (or Ulysses) back to Ithaca, his homeland, respectively—apart from the main narration, include important information on the scientific and technological knowledge of the era (c. 13th–12th BCE). Till fairly recently, it was thought that the said accounts were poetic conceptions only, however, research has proved that this information corresponds to real systems, operating according to the laws of physics, of which the people of the Mycenaean era seemed to have a thorough knowledge. Many of the technical achievements described are attributed to Hephaestus, the chief god-technician, who invented a great number of devices in the area of MMS. Enlisting and analyzing such cases, several of which have been investigated both numerically and experimentally by the author and his coworkers, provide a more or less clear picture of the state of the art in the Greek prehistory, i.e. the time span between the Mycenaean and the subsequent Geometric and Classical eras.]

Published: Jan 2, 2020

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