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UNINA9910484853103321 |
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Pisano Raffaele <1970-> |
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Essay on Machines in General (1786) : Text, Translations and Commentaries. Lazare Carnot's Mechanics - Volume 1 / / by Raffaele Pisano, Jennifer Coopersmith, Murray Peake |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (364 pages) |
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Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science, , 2214-9783 ; ; 47 |
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Logic |
Physics - Philosophy |
Machinery |
Science - History |
Knowledge, Theory of |
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy |
Machinery and Machine Elements |
History of Science |
Epistemology |
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Monografia |
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Introduction -- Chapter 1. A Critical Translation -- Chapter 2. End Notes -- Chapter 3. Lazare Carnot’s Manuscripts and Documents -- References -- Analytical Index. . |
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This book offers insights relevant to modern history and epistemology of physics, mathematics and, indeed, to all the sciences and engineering disciplines emerging of 19th century. This research volume is the first of a set of three Springer books on Lazare Nicolas Marguérite Carnot’s (1753–1823) remarkable work: Essay on Machines in General (Essai sur les machines en général [1783] 1786). The other two forthcoming volumes are: Principes fondamentaux de l’équilibre et du mouvement (1803) and Géométrie de position (1803). Lazare Carnot – l'organisateur de la victoire – in Essai sur le machine en général (1786) assumed that the generalization of machines was a necessity for |
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society and its economic development. Subsequently, his new coming science applied to machines attracted considerable interest for technician, as well, already in the 1780’s. With no lack in rigour, Carnot used geometric and trigonometric rather than algebraic arguments, and usually went on to explain in words what the formulae contained. His main physical– mathematical concepts were the Geometric motion and Moment of activity–concept of Work . In particular, he found the invariants of the transmission of motion (by stating the principle of the moment of the quantity of motion) and theorized the condition of the maximum efficiency of mechanical machines (i.e., principle of continuity in the transmission of power). While the core theme remains the theories and historical studies of the text, the book contains an extensive Introduction and an accurate critical English Translation – including the parallel text edition and substantive critical/explicative notes – of Essai sur les machines en général (1786). The authors offer much-needed insight into the relation between mechanics, mathematics and engineering from a conceptual, empirical and methodological, and universalis point of view. As a cutting–edge writing by leading authorities on the history of physics and mathematics, and epistemological aspects, it appeals to historians, epistemologist–philosophers and scientists (physicists, mathematicians and applied sciences and technology). |
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UNINA9910971732103321 |
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Vernon Alex <1967-> |
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Soldiers once and still : Ernest Hemingway, James Salter & Tim O'Brien / / Alex Vernon |
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Iowa City, : University of Iowa Press, c2004 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (329 p.) |
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War stories, American - History and criticism |
War and literature - United States - History - 20th century |
American literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Soldiers' writings, American - History and criticism |
Veterans' writings, American - History and criticism |
Soldiers - United States - Intellectual life |
Veterans - United States - Intellectual life |
War in literature |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [297]-308) and index. |
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part 1: Reading American War Literature, Reading Ernest Hemingway; 1.ReadingTwentieth-Century American War Literature; 2. War, Gender, and Ernest Hemingway; Part 2. Reading James Salter; 3. James Salter Biographic and Cultural Context; 4. The Hemingway Influence and the Very Modern _A Sport and a Pastime_; 5. From Flying to Writing; 6. Death, Desire, and the Homosocial; Part 3: Reading Tim O'Brien; 7. O'Brien's Literary Project; 8. Submission and Resistance to the Self as Soldier: Tim O'Brien's War Memoir |
9. Salvation, Storytelling, and Pilgrimage in _The Things They Carried_10. O'Brien's War, O'Brien's Women; Conclusion; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
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As the world enters a new century, as it embarks on new wars and sees new developments in the waging of war, reconsiderations of the last |
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century's legacy of warfare are necessary to our understanding of the current world order. In Soldiers Once and Still, Alex Vernon looks back through the twentieth century in order to confront issues of self and community in veterans' literature, exploring how war and the military have shaped the identities of Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O'Brien, three of the twentieth century's most respected authors. Vernon specifically explores the various way |
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