Book ID: CBB000302311

Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (2002)

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Becchi, Antonio (Editor)
Corradi, Massimo (Editor)
Foce, Federico (Editor)
Pedemonte, Orietta (Editor)


Birkhäuser


Publication Date: 2002
Physical Details: xiii + 795 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description Comprises five divisions: “Strength of Materials and Structural Mechanics,” “History of Applied Mechanics,” “Between Mechanics and Architecture,” “Dedicated to Eduardo Benvenuto,” and “Architecture and History.” Partial contents:


Reviewed By

Review Schreiber, Peter (2005) Review of "Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto". NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin. unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Author missing; (2002) Edoardo Benvenuto: A Brief Biography. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto. unapi

Chapter Corradi, Massimo (2002) La mécanique des sols proposée par les élèves de Saint-Venant. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 225). unapi

Chapter Kurrer, Karl-Eugen (2002) De la statique classique des constructions à la statique sur ordinateur. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 263). unapi

Chapter Maccagni, Carlo (2002) Science and Knowledge of Crafts: Some Considerations. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 297). unapi

Chapter Ageno, Alessio; Foce, Federico; Frilli, Maura (2002) From “Empeiria” to Calculation in Gauthey's Mémoire sur l'application des principles de la méchanique à la construction des voûtes et des dômes. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 211). unapi

Chapter Freguglia, Paolo (2002) Giuseppe Veronese's Studies on Four-Dimentional Descriptive Geometry. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 253). unapi

Chapter Maltese, Giulio (2002) On the Introduction of the Notion of Frame of Reference into Eighteenth-Century Mechanics. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 303). unapi

Chapter Perino, Angiola Maria Sassi (2002) Studies on Instability Phenomena between the 19th and the 20th Century: The Conceptual Value of the Engesser-Shanley Theory. In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 333). unapi

Chapter Chatzis, Konstantinos (2002) Mécanique physique, expérimentation et tradition dans la science des constructions de J.-V. Poncelet (1788--1867). In: Towards a History of Construction: Dedicated to Edoardo Benvenuto (p. 343). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Mistewicz, Anna
Erling Haagensen
John Christopher
John Holmes
Denton, Sally
Themis G. Dallas
Concepts
Building construction
Architecture
Engineering
Technology
Technology and culture
Geometry
Time Periods
20th century
Ancient
Medieval
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
Places
France
Middle and Near East
Mediterranean region
Europe
Illyricum
Moscow (Russia)
Institutions
Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Bechtel Group
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers
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