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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine [[electronic resource] ] : A History of Production and Information Machines / / by Teun Koetsier
| The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine [[electronic resource] ] : A History of Production and Information Machines / / by Teun Koetsier |
| Autore | Koetsier Teun |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2019.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (366 pages) |
| Disciplina | 658.7 |
| Collana | History of Mechanism and Machine Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Machinery
Artificial intelligence Technology—History Machinery and Machine Elements Artificial Intelligence History of Technology |
| ISBN | 3-319-96547-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Preface -- 1 Introduction -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- Cultural evolution -- Production technology and information technology -- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens -- Animals using production tools -- Monkeys and apes using production tools -- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals -- Communicating honey bees -- Communication among monkeys and apes -- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens -- Olduwan technology -- The adze makers of Langda -- Language as an information tool -- The control of fire -- The Stone Age Revolution -- Information tools -- Whistle languages -- Talking drums -- The Ishango bone -- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific -- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires -- Economic surplus -- Agriculture -- The wheel -- Monumental architecture -- Complete writing -- Towards the alphabet -- Mathematics -- Sundials and water clocks -- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science -- The Axial Age -- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India -- Oral versus written thought -- Aristotle’s Logic, a New Information Tool -- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that -- Deductive science -- The birth of the theory of machines -- The wedge and the pulleys -- Archimedes -- The invention of the screw -- Heron’s Mechanics -- Combinations of simple machines -- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane -- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity -- The invention of artillery -- Production machines in Vitruvius’ Ten Books on Architecture -- The Phaistos disc -- The abacus -- Water clocks and sundials -- The Armillary Sphere -- The anaphoric clock -- The astrolabe -- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism -- The front dial -- The upper back dial -- The pin and slot mechanism -- The hodometer -- Automata -- 6 The Middle Ages -- Marco Polo -- Textile machines -- Military technology -- Metal technology -- Movable type printing -- The hodometer and Su Sung’s clock -- Automata -- Chinese influence in the West -- The Golden Age of Islamic Science -- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa -- Al-Jazari’s production machines -- Al-Muradi -- The rise of the West -- Jordanus -- The Vision of Ramon Llull -- The invention of the printing press -- Llull’s influence -- A new information machine: the mechanical clock -- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution -- The impact of the printing press -- Da Vinci and the others -- Parachute, tank and machine gun -- Da Vinci as an engineer -- Da Vinci’s fame -- Theaters of machines -- Exterior ballistics -- Del Monte and simple machines -- Galilei and simple machines -- The Archimedean screw pump -- Astronomy -- Galilei’s Discorsi -- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin -- There is more -- The dream of a mathesis universalis -- Calculators -- Scepticism -- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron -- The background -- The role of the Scientific Revolution -- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution -- The Malthusian trap -- The escape -- One or more Industrial Revolutions? -- Innovation and long waves -- The Control Revolution -- Textile industry -- Steam engines -- Safety valve and governor -- Robert Stirling -- Printing -- A changing world -- The clockmakers and the art of the transformation of motion -- Watt’s parallelogram -- Babbage’s machines -- 9 The Second Wave of Industrial Revolution: Railroads and Steel -- Globalization -- The Railroads -- Stephenson’s valve gear -- Corliss Engines -- Problems of control -- Organizational charts: the birth of a new information tool -- Office technology -- Kinematics and the birth of scientific technology -- The energetic approach -- Sadi Carnot and the Carnot machine -- Thermodynamics is born -- The application of thermodynamics to the design of actual machines -- 10 More Scientific Technology -- Electrical engineering -- Ballistics -- Iron in architecture -- Scientific management -- Control rooms -- Sales -- Calculators -- Statistical machines -- Scientific calculators -- Kelvin’s tide predictors -- Differential analyzers -- 11 Electronic Brains -- The fourth wave and the first programmable computers -- Turing machines: What can be computed in principle? -- Code breaking -- The mechanization of the mind -- Early computers in the USA -- Real Time Computing -- Software -- The computer becomes personal -- The fifth wave and the World Wide Web -- Smartphones and more -- 12 Towards the Global Intelligent Machine -- Early hybrid machines -- Karel Čapek -- An early parallel robot -- Analogue computer-controlled machines -- From analogue to numerical control -- Cybernetics -- An early serial robot -- Robotics -- The Stewart platform -- Field and service robots -- Artificial intelligence -- The Internet of Things -- The Global Intelligent Machine -- On the way to GIM -- GIM is growing fast -- Industry 4.0 -- 13 Epilogue -- Hindsight -- A Brave New World? -- The battleground -- Cybercrime -- Unemployment -- Security, Privacy and fake news -- 14 Literature -- Index. |
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A History of Kinematics from Zeno to Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : On the Role of Motion in the Development of Mathematics / / by Teun Koetsier
| A History of Kinematics from Zeno to Einstein [[electronic resource] ] : On the Role of Motion in the Development of Mathematics / / by Teun Koetsier |
| Autore | Koetsier Teun |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2024.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (354 pages) |
| Disciplina | 531.11209 |
| Collana | History of Mechanism and Machine Science |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics
History Science - History Mechanical engineering History of Mathematical Sciences History of Science Mechanical Engineering |
| ISBN | 3-031-39872-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Philosophers, Mathematics and Motion -- 1.1 Motion Does Not Exist -- 1.2 Mathematics and the Idealist Tradition in Greek Philosophy -- 1.3 Mathematics and Motion -- 1.4 Aristotle Refutes Zeno -- 1.5 Zeno's Trick: Motion Is Interpreted as a Super-Task -- 1.6 The Neo-platonist Ontological Hierarchy -- 1.7 The Postulates 1 Through 3 in Neo-platonism: Proclus Solution -- 1.8 Zeuthen's Thesis -- 2 Motion Beyond the Elements -- 2.1 The Euclidean Construction Game -- 2.2 The Incompleteness of the Euclidean Construction Game -- 2.3 Archytas of Tarente -- 2.4 A Solution from Plato's Academy -- 2.5 Menaechmus and Conic Sections -- 2.6 A Remarkable Application and Heron's Solution -- 2.7 The Doubling of the Cube: Eratosthenes' Instrument -- 2.8 The Neusis-Construction and the Conchoids -- 2.9 Diocles' Cissoid -- 3 General Considerations and Kinematical Aspects of Motion -- 3.1 Pappus' Classification -- 3.2 Composition of Different Uniform Motions: The Quadratrix -- 3.3 Time-Dependent Kinematical Aspects of Motion -- 3.4 Composition of Uniform Motions and Paradoxes of Motion in Mechanical Problems -- 3.5 A Remark on Methodology and a Theorem by Archimedes on Uniform Motion -- 3.6 Archimedes: Motion in Geometry -- 4 Kinematical Models in Astronomy -- 4.1 Plato and Astronomy -- 4.2 The Model in Plato's Timaeus -- 4.3 Eudoxus' Models -- 4.4 Apollonius' Epicycle Model -- 4.5 Hipparchus' Theory of the Motion of the Sun (About 150 BCE) -- 4.6 Ptolemy' Contributions -- 4.7 Ptolemy's Contributions Continued -- 4.8 Astronomy in the Islamic World: The Tusi-Couple -- 5 The Birth of Instantaneous Velocity -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Velocity Distributions in Space and Time -- 5.3 The Average Velocity of a Rotating Radius -- 5.4 The Average Velocity of a Rotating Disc -- 5.5 Bradwardine: Towards Instantaneous Velocity.
5.6 Dumbleton and the Merton Theorem -- 5.7 Giovanni Casali and Nicole Oresme -- 5.8 Acceleration: Euler and Newton's Second Law -- 6 The Parallelogram of Instantaneous Velocities -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Gilles Personne de Roberval: The Tangent as the Line of Instantaneous Advance -- 6.3 Isaac Newton on Tangents -- 6.4 D'Alembert on the Parallelogram of Instantaneous Velocities -- 6.5 A Philosophical Aside and Kant on the Parallelogram of Velocities -- 7 Napier, Fermat, Descartes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 John Napier's Kinematical Definition of the Logarithm and Torricelli's 'Logarithmica' -- 7.3 Pierre de Fermat and Motion in His Introduction to Plane and Solid Loci -- 7.4 René Descartes -- 7.5 Descartes' Ambitions and His New Compasses -- 7.6 Algebra Comes In -- 7.7 Pappus' Problem -- 7.8 An Example: The Turning Ruler and Moving Curve Procedure -- 7.9 Descartes' Solution of Pappus' 5-Line Problem -- 7.10 The Use of Strings -- 7.11 The Final Results -- 8 De Witt, van Schooten, Newton and Huygens -- 8.1 Frans van Schooten Junior -- 8.2 Jan de Witt -- 8.3 Frans van Schooten Junior: Mechanisms to Draw a Parabola -- 8.4 Frans van Schooten Junior: Mechanisms to Draw an Ellipse -- 8.5 Frans van Schooten Junior: Mechanisms to Draw a Hyperbola -- 8.6 Isaac Newton, Motion and the Fundamental Theorem of the Calculus -- 8.7 The Method of Fluxions -- 8.8 Circular Motion in the Work of Huygens and Newton -- 8.9 Huygens and Gear Trains -- 8.9.1 Leibniz and Transcendental Curves -- 9 Towards Theoretical Kinematics -- 9.1 The Instantaneous Center of Rotation, Descartes and Johann Bernoulli -- 9.2 The Cycloid -- 9.3 The Inflexion Circle -- 9.4 De La Hire's Proof -- 9.5 Elliptic Motion -- 9.6 Epicycloidal Gearing -- 9.7 The Euler-Savary Formula -- 9.8 Euler and the Euler-Savary Formula -- 9.9 The Instantaneous Axis of Rotation in Spherical Kinematics. 9.10 Giulio Mozzi and the Instantaneous Screw Axis -- 10 Theoretical Kinematics as a Subject in Its Own Right -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 Augustin Louis Cauchy's 1827 Paper -- 10.3 Michel Chasles -- 10.4 Bobillier's Theorem -- 10.5 Jacques Antoine Charles Bresse -- 10.6 The Ball Points -- 11 Towards a New Theory of Machines -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 Lazare Carnot -- 11.3 Collisions of Hard Bodies and Geometrical Movements -- 11.4 The First Fundamental Equation -- 11.5 The Second Fundamental Equation -- 11.6 Gaspard Monge -- 11.7 The Theory of Machines in France in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- 11.8 Coriolis' View of Machines -- 11.9 An Example of a Calculation -- 11.10 The Coriolis Force -- 11.11 Riccioli and Grimaldi Noticed the Coriolis-Effect in 1651 -- 12 The New Science Is Given a Name: Kinematics -- 12.1 A New Classification of the Sciences -- 12.2 Robert Willis' Principles of Mechanism -- 12.3 Henri Résal's Traité de Cinématique Pure -- 12.4 Kinematics as the Essence of Theoretical Mechanics -- 13 Developments in Kinematics of Mechanisms -- 13.1 Scheiner's Pantograph -- 13.2 The Year 1784 -- 13.3 Sweet Simplicity -- 13.4 Early Theoretical Interest in Watts Linkages -- 13.5 Peaucellier -- 13.6 Lipman Lipkin -- 14 The Work of English Mathematicians on Linkages during the Period 1869-1878 -- 14.1 Chebyshev's Role -- 14.2 Roberts' Work in Kinematics Before Sylvester's Lecture -- 14.3 Kempe's First Paper -- 14.4 Sylvester's Role -- 14.5 Roberts' Theorem -- 14.6 Some Remarks About Further Work -- 14.7 Concluding Remarks -- 15 Franz Reuleaux, Kinematics as the Essence of Mechanical Engineering -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 Franz Reuleaux -- 15.3 The Central Idea: The Kinematical Chain -- 15.4 Incomplete Pairs and Chains -- 15.5 Higher Kinematical Pairs -- 15.6 Equivalent Mechanisms -- 15.7 Equivalent Rotary Engines. 15.8 Analysis Versus Synthesis -- 16 Ludwig Burmester, Kinematics as Part of Geometry -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Burmester's Work -- 16.3 The Lehrbuch der Kinematik: Its Contents -- 16.4 An Example: Stephenson's Motion -- 16.5 Martin Grübler -- 16.6 A Note on Chebyshev -- 16.7 Grübler on Classifying Kinematical Chains -- 16.8 The Burmester Theory and the Burmester Points -- 16.9 On the Reception of Burmester's Work -- 16.10 Reuleaux' Criticism of Burmester -- 16.11 Some Nineteenth Century Developments Elsewhere -- 17 Albert Einstein, the Kinematics of Special Relativity -- 17.1 Introduction -- 17.2 The Principle of Relativity -- 17.3 The Principle of the Constancy of Light and the Paradox -- 17.4 The Willingness to Give Up the Axiom of the Absoluteness of Time -- 17.5 Checking the Inspiration -- 17.6 The Technical Development in the 1905 Paper -- 17.7 Derivation of the Differential Equation for τ = τ(xʹ, y, z, t) -- 17.8 The Determination of ξ(xʹ, y, z, t), η(xʹ, y, z, t) and ζ(xʹ, y, z, t) -- 17.9 Towards the Formulae of the Lorentz Transformation -- 17.10 The Twin Paradox -- 18 Minkowski: The Universe Is a 4-Dimensional Manifold -- 18.1 Empiricists and Rationalists -- 18.2 Developments in Geometry -- 18.3 Hilbert's Influence and Minkowski's Rationalism -- 18.4 Minkowski and Relativity -- 18.5 A 4-Dimensional Interpretation of Newtonian Mechanics -- 18.6 Special Relativity Deduced a Priori -- 18.7 The Twin Paradox -- 19 Kinematics in the 20th Century -- 19.1 The Twentieth Century -- 19.2 Institutionalization -- 19.3 Twentieth Century Mathematicians Working in Kinematics -- Bibliography -- Index. |
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| Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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