Minerva Meets Vulcan: Scientific and Technological Literature - 1450-1750

Acknowledgments

Introduction                                                                                                                                     

1                     Science and Technology

2                     Practical and Learned Knowledge in the Early Modern Period

3                     The Book's Questions and Approach

Chapter I - Architecture                                                                                                               

1            Science of Architecture

2            Crafts and Codification of Knowledge

3            Design I - Buildings Types and their Decoration

4            Design II - Measures and Rules

5            Design III - Perspective Drawings and Orthogonal Plans

6            Constructive Geometry, Stereotomy and Descriptive Geometry

7            Construction and Statics

8            Conclusion

Chapter II - Chemistry                                                                                                                  

1                     Literature on Chemistry before 1600

2                     Literature on Distilling

3                     Literature on Assaying and Smelting

4                     The Emergence of Chemical Technology

5                     Terms and Concepts

6                     Technology and Theory

7                     Unnoticed Shifts in Technology

8                     Irritating Processes and New Understandings

9                     A New Theory

10                 Conclusion

Chapter III - Gunnery                                                                                                                    

1                     Warfare in Illuminated Manuscripts

2                     Gunners' Manuscripts (Büchsenmeisterbücher)

3                     Excursus: Manufacturing Guns

4                     Sixteenth-Century Gunners' Manuals and Treatises on Gunnery

5                     Tartaglia

6                     External Ballistics from Tartaglia to Galileo

7                     Experimental Ballistics

8                     Conclusion

Chapter IV - Mechanical Engineering                                                                       

1                     Pictorial Documents: Technological Literature?

2                     The Age of Illuminated Manuscripts

3                     The Age of Theaters of Machines

4                     Reasoning on Mechanics

5                     Machine Science and Early Modern Statics: A Mismatch

6                     Measurement of Driving Forces I - Men as Driving Force

7                     Measurement of Driving Forces II -The Beginnings of a Theory of Machines

8                     Conclusion

Chapter V - Mining Science                                                                                                        

1                     Mining Science

2                     Shafts, Galleries, and the Extraction of Minerals

3                     Mining Machinery

4                     Mine Surveying (Markscheiden)

5                     Prospecting Minerals and Rocks

6                     Teaching in Mining Academies

7                     Conclusion

Chapter VI - Practical Mathematics                                                                                         

1                     Practical Mathematical Sciences

2                     Surveying

3                     Excursus: Books on Mathematics for Practitioners

4                     Surveying without Angular Measurement

5                     Angular Measurement I - Astronomy

6                     Angular Measurement II - Navigation and Mathematical Geography

7                     Higher Geodesy

8                     Conclusion

Epilog                                                                                                                                                 

1                    Mechanics

2                    Practical Mathematics

3                    Chemistry

4                    Architecture and Mining

5                    Interrelations and Developments

 

List of References                                                                                                                           

Index

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