TY  - BOOK
AU  - Landels, John G. 
AU  - Landels, John G. 
TI  - Engineering in the ancient world
SN  - 9780520227828
U1  - 620.00938 LAN 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Berkeley 
PB  - : University of California Press, 
KW  - Engineering
KW  - Engineering & Applied operations
KW  - Engineering -- History
KW  - Transportation -- History
KW  - Science, Ancient
KW  - Transportation
KW  - Griechenland
KW  - Teknik -- historia -- antiken
N1  - 1. Power and Energy Sources --
Man-power --
Animal power --
Water power --
Wind power --
Steam power --
2. Water Supplies and Engineering --
App. The sizes of measurement nozzles, and Frontinus' arithmetic --
3. Water Pumps --
4. Cranes and Hoists --
5. Catapults --
6. Ships and Sea Transport --
App. Methods of estimating the maximum speeds of oared vessels --
7. Land Transport --
8. The Progress of Theoretical Knowledge --
9. The Principal Greek and Roman Writers on Technological Subjects --
Hero of Alexandria --
Vitruvius --
Frontinus --
Pliny --
App. The Reconstruction of a Trireme
N2  - Counter In his classic book, J.G. Landels describes the technological advances of the Greeks and Romans with erudition and enthusiasm. He provides an important introduction to engineering, writing about power and energy sources, water engineering, cranes, and transportation devises. From aqueducts to catapults, he attempts to envision machines as they may have worked in the ancient world. He then traces the path of knowledge taken by early thinkers--including Plato, Pliny, and Archimedes--in developing early theories of engineering and physics
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