Suay Belenguer, Juan Miguel (Author)
Throughout its history, the kite has crossed many geographical and cultural borders. Its shapes, its uses, its meaning and its symbology have undergone many changes to adapt to each of these different contexts. But perhaps one of the most significant transformations of this highly popular and traditional object of fun and leisure took place at the heart of Western culture when, at the height of the Enlightenment, the kite became a scientific instrument for physical experimentation, used by authors such as Benjamin Franklin for the study of atmospheric electricity, and shortly after as a device propelled by a fluid. In 1758, the Berlin Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts published a volume containing memoires written in 1756. In the section devoted to Mathematics, three papers by Leonhard Euler (1707--1783) were published, one of them dealing with the study of windmills. In the same volume, his son, Johann Albert Euler (1734--1800) published a paper on kites (Des Cerf- volants). The formal structure of both articles is very similar as regards the definition of the geometric model of the device, the physical model they apply in order to explain how the kite works (impact theory), the mathematical development -- algebraic -- and the way their results are expressed. The purpose of my work is to analyze the ways in which the definition, the shape, the uses and the representation of the kite have changed in order to be included in further papers among those presented and published by the different European Academies on hydraulic machines and naval theory throughout the 18th century.
...MoreDescription On the definition, shape, uses, and representation of the kite as it changed over the 18th century in the context of hydraulic machines and naval theory.
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