00897nam a2200253 i 450099100418001970753620020509155547.0010704s1908 it ||| | ita b11282290-39ule_instPARLA197603ExLDip.to Filosofiaita192Spencer, Herbert70862Il progresso umano /Herbert Spencer ; prima traduzione italiana di Guglielmo SalvadoriTorino :Bocca,1908381 p. ;24 cm.Biblioteca di scienze moderne ;35Salvadori, Guglielmo.b1128229023-02-1701-07-02991004180019707536LE005IF XXV B 3512005000271786le005-E0.00-l- 01010.i1144727801-07-02Progresso umano575587UNISALENTOle00501-01-01ma -itait 3101107nam2 22003013i 450 CFI015649920231121125441.08804314907978880431490525 rist. 201120160503d1988 ||||0itac50 baitaitz01i xxxe z01n˜[2]: œDa Socrate in poiLuciano De CrescenzoMilanoA. Mondadori1988231 p.ill.20 cm001CFI01564922001 Storia della filosofia grecaLuciano De Crescenzo2De Crescenzo, LucianoCFIV01584307037571ITIT-0120160503IT-RM0418 IT-FR0017 BIBLIOTECA ACCADEMIA NAZ. DEI LINCEI E CORSINIANARM0418 Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio ApreaFR0017 NCFI0156499Biblioteca umanistica Giorgio Aprea 52MAG 7/902 52FLS0000161635 VMB RS A 2022011420220114 10 52Da Socrate in poi3605233UNICAS03274oam 2200529I 450 991015461110332120230808200634.01-351-93190-31-315-25372-010.4324/9781315253725 (CKB)3710000000965557(MiAaPQ)EBC4758138(OCoLC)973034045(BIP)63374518(BIP)11649645(EXLCZ)99371000000096555720180706e20162006 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGunpowder, explosives and the state a technological history /edited by Brenda J. BuchananLondon ;New York :Routledge,2016.1 online resource (450 pages) illustrations, photographs, tablesFirst published 2006 by Ashgate.0-7546-5259-9 1-351-93191-1 pt. 1. Modern perceptions and ancient knowledge -- pt. 2. The production of saltpetre and gunpowder in Europe -- pt. 3. The overseas transfer of technology from Europe -- pt. 4. Military technicalities -- pt. 5. Modern developments.Gunpowder studies are still in their infancy despite the long-standing civil and military importance of this explosive since its discovery in China in the mid-ninth century AD. In this second volume by contributors who meet regularly at symposia of the International Committee for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC), the research is again rooted in the investigation of the technology of explosives manufacture, but the fact that the chapters range in scope from the Old World to the New, from sources of raw materials in south-east Asia to the complications of manufacture in the West, shows that the story is more than the simple one of how an intriguing product was made. This volume is the first to develop the implications of the subject, not just in the sense of relating it to changing military technologies, but in that of seeing the securing of gunpowder supplies as fundamental to the power of the state and imperial pretensions.The search for saltpetre, for example, an essential ingredient of gunpowder, became a powerful engine of sea-going European trade from the early seventeenth century. Smaller states like Venice were unable to form these distant connections, and so to sustain a gunpowder army. Stronger states like France and Britain were able to do so, and became even more powerful as the demand for improved explosives fostered national strengths - leading to a development of the sciences, especially chemistry, in the former case, and of manufacturing techniques in the latter.GunpowderHistoryGunpowder industryHistoryAmmunitionHistoryFirearmsHistoryGunpowderHistory.Gunpowder industryHistory.AmmunitionHistory.FirearmsHistory.662/.26Buchanan Brenda J923112MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910154611103321Gunpowder, explosives and the state2071207UNINA