Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica: Or, A New and Comprehensive System Of The Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy and Geography, In A Course of Twelfe Lectures
Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica: Or, A New & Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy & Geomgraphy
Author: Benjamin Martin
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica; Or, a New ... System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy and Geography. In a Course of Twelve Lectures, with Notes, Containing the ... Proofs ... of All the Principal Propositions in ... Natural Science ... with ... Copper-plates
Author: Benjamin MARTIN (Optician)
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Steam
Author: Andrea Sutcliffe
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466892625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering there was not a single working steam engine in America in the early 1780s, Fitch's steamboat's development was nothing short of remarkable. But he faced competition from the start, and he and several other inventors fought a string of bitter battles, legal and otherwise. Steam tells the dramatic story of Fitch and his adversaries, weaving their lives into a fascinating tale including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. It is the story behind America's first important venture in technology, the persevering and colorful men that made it happen, and the great invention that moved a new nation westward.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466892625
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
In 1807, Robert Fulton, using an English mail-order steam engine, chugged four miles an hour up the Hudson River, passing into popular folklore as the inventor of the steamboat. However, the true first passenger steamboat in America, and the world, was built from scratch, and plied the Delaware River in 1790, almost two decades earlier. Its inventor, John Fitch, never attained Fulton's riches, and was rewarded with ridicule and poverty. Considering there was not a single working steam engine in America in the early 1780s, Fitch's steamboat's development was nothing short of remarkable. But he faced competition from the start, and he and several other inventors fought a string of bitter battles, legal and otherwise. Steam tells the dramatic story of Fitch and his adversaries, weaving their lives into a fascinating tale including the likes of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin. It is the story behind America's first important venture in technology, the persevering and colorful men that made it happen, and the great invention that moved a new nation westward.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Publisher:
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Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 710
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica, Or, A New and Comprehensive System of the Newtonian Philosophy, Astronomy, and Geography, in a Course of Twelve Lectures, with Notes ; Containing the Physical, Mechanical, Geometrical, and Experimental Proofs and Illustrations of All the Principal Propositions in Every Branch of Natural Science
Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
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Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Astronomy
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica
Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
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Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
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Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Philosophia Britannica
Author: Benjamin Martin
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 546
Book Description
A History of Natural Philosophy
Author: Edward Grant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521869315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521869315
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.
On Their Own Terms
Author: Benjamin A. Elman
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674036476
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
In On Their Own Terms, Benjamin A. Elman offers a much-needed synthesis of early Chinese science during the Jesuit period (1600-1800) and the modern sciences as they evolved in China under Protestant influence (1840s-1900). By 1600 Europe was ahead of Asia in producing basic machines, such as clocks, levers, and pulleys, that would be necessary for the mechanization of agriculture and industry. In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Elman shows, Europeans still sought from the Chinese their secrets of producing silk, fine textiles, and porcelain, as well as large-scale tea cultivation. Chinese literati borrowed in turn new algebraic notations of Hindu-Arabic origin, Tychonic cosmology, Euclidian geometry, and various computational advances. Since the middle of the nineteenth century, imperial reformers, early Republicans, Guomindang party cadres, and Chinese Communists have all prioritized science and technology. In this book, Elman gives a nuanced account of the ways in which native Chinese science evolved over four centuries, under the influence of both Jesuit and Protestant missionaries. In the end, he argues, the Chinese produced modern science on their own terms.