A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments
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A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments
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Author : Florian Cajori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1909
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments written by Florian Cajori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1909 with Slide-rule categories.
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments
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Author : Florian Cajori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments written by Florian Cajori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Mathematics categories.
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments
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Author : Florian Cajori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments written by Florian Cajori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with categories.
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments And On The History Of Gunter S Scale And The Slide Rule During The Seventeenth Century
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Author : Florian Cajori
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1994
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule And Allied Instruments And On The History Of Gunter S Scale And The Slide Rule During The Seventeenth Century written by Florian Cajori and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Mathematics categories.
The slide rule, with its many variations, has been vital to mathematics and engineering since its invention in the 17th century. Interest in this field has grown dramatically and collectors can still find much material at affordable prices. Unfortunately there has been little information available except for manufacturers manuals and catalogs, making this reprint of Cajori's classic particularly valuable. Also included with this reprint of the 1910 edition is Cajori's extensive article On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule during the 17th Century, published by the University of California in 1920, which sets forth his subsequent findings. There is also a helpful explanatory introduction by Dr. Robert K. Otnes, editor of the Journal of the Oughtred Society
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule Allied Instruments
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Author : Louis Charles Karpinski
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1910
A History Of The Logarithmic Slide Rule Allied Instruments written by Louis Charles Karpinski and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1910 with Slide-rule categories.
On The History Of Gunter S Scale And The Slide Rule During The Seventeenth Century
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Author : Florian Cajori
language : en
Publisher: Litres
Release Date : 2021-12-02
On The History Of Gunter S Scale And The Slide Rule During The Seventeenth Century written by Florian Cajori and has been published by Litres this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-12-02 with Fiction categories.
John Pell 1611 1685 And His Correspondence With Sir Charles Cavendish
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Author : Noel Malcolm
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2004-11-25
John Pell 1611 1685 And His Correspondence With Sir Charles Cavendish written by Noel Malcolm and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-11-25 with Mathematics categories.
The mathematician John Pell was a member of that golden generation of scientists Boyle, Wren, Hooke, and others which came together in the early Royal Society. Although he left a huge body of manuscript materials, he has remained an extraordinarily neglected figure, whose papers have never been properly explored. This book, the first ever full-length study of Pell, presents an in-depth account of his life and mathematical thinking, based on a detailed study of his manuscripts. It not only restores to his proper place in history a figure who was one of the leading mathematicians of his day; it also brings to life a strange, appealing, but awkward character, whose failure to publish his discoveries was caused by powerful scruples. In addition, this book shows that the range of Pell's interests extended far beyond mathematics. He was a key member of the circle of the 'intelligencer' Samuel Hartlib; he prepared translations of works by Descartes and Comenius; in the 1650s he served as Cromwell's envoy to Switzerland; and in the last part of his life he was an active member of the Royal Society, interested in the whole range of its activities. The study of Pell's life and thought thus illuminates many different aspects of 17th-century intellectual life. The book is in three parts. The first is a detailed biography of Pell; the second is an extended essay on his mathematical work; the third is a richly annotated edition of his correspondence with Sir Charles Cavendish. This correspondence, which has often been cited by scholars but has never been published in full, is concerned not only with mathematics but also with optics, philosophy, and many other subjects; conducted mainly while Pell was in the Netherlands and Cavendish was also on the Continent, it is an unusually fascinating example of the correspondence that flourished in the 17th-century 'Republic of letters'. This book will be an essential resource not only for historians of mathematics, science, and philosophy, but also for intellectual and cultural historians of early modern Europe.
Hands On History
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Author : Amy Shell-Gellasch
language : en
Publisher: MAA
Release Date : 2007
Hands On History written by Amy Shell-Gellasch and has been published by MAA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
In an increasingly electronic society, these exercises are designed to help school and collegiate educators use historical devices of mathematics to balance the digital side of mathematics.
Calculation And Computation In The Pre Electronic Era
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Author : Aristotle Tympas
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-12
Calculation And Computation In The Pre Electronic Era written by Aristotle Tympas and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-12 with Computers categories.
Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages. This unique volume introduces the history of computing during the “first” (steam) and “second” (electricity) segments of the Industrial Revolution, revealing how this history was pivotal to the emergence of electronic computing and what many historians see as signifying a shift to a post-industrial society. It delves into critical developments before the electronic era, focusing on those of the mechanical era (from the emergence of the steam engine to that of the electric power network) and the electrical era (from the emergence of the electric power network to that of electronic computing). In so doing, it provides due attention to the demarcations between—and associated classifications of—artifacts for calculation during these respective eras. In turn, it emphasizes the history of comparisons between these artifacts. Topics and Features: motivates exposition through a firm historiographical argument of important developments explores the history of the slide rule and its use in the context of electrification examines the roles of analyzers, graphs, and a whole range of computing artifacts hitherto placed under the allegedly inferior class of analog computers shows how the analog and the digital are really inseparable, with perceptions thereof depending on either a full or a restricted view of the computing process investigates socially situated comparisons of computing history, including the effects of a political economy of computing (one that takes into account cost and ownership of computing artifacts) assesses concealment of analog-machine labor through encasement (“black-boxing”) Historians of computing, as well as those of technology and science (especially, energy), will find this well-argued and presented history of calculation and computation in the mechanical and electrical eras an indispensable resource. The work is a natural textbook companion for history of computing courses, and will also appeal to the broader readership of curious computer scientists and engineers, as well as those who generally just have a yearn to learn the contextual background to the current digital age. "In this fascinating, original work, Tympas indispensably intertwines the histories of analog and digital computing, showing them to be inseparable from the evolution of social and economic conditions. " Prof. David Mindell, MIT
Sir Jonas Moore
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Author : Frances Willmoth
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1993
Sir Jonas Moore written by Frances Willmoth and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Sir Jonas Moore (1617-79) - practical mathematician, teacher, author, surveyor, cartographer, Ordnance Officer, courtier and patron of astronomy - enjoyed a remarkable career by the standards of any age, and was one of the first to make a substantial fortune from mathematical practice. In the course of his 'rise' (as his friend John Aubrey termed it) from humble origins in Lancashire to a knighthood, membership of the Royal Society and favour at the court of Charles II, he participated in the two most ambitious projects of the age: the draining of the Great Level of the Fens (under the Dutch engineer Sir Cornelius Vermuyden) and the building of a massive harbour wall, the Mole, at Tangier. In later life his wealth and influence as Surveyor-General of the Ordnance enabled him to become a patron of the new Royal Observatory at Greenwich. This biography, the first detailed study of Moore, examines his career in the context of changing views of mathematics, especially in relation to 17th-century disputes about the proper nature of the discipline and its effectiveness as means of solving practical problems. It sheds light on the roles played by patrons and teachers of the subject, most notably the figurehead of English mathematicians, William Oughtred. It also illuminates the confidence in practical mathematics that inspired Moore's unique activities as a patron, and the uneasy relationship between this and the natural-philosophical concerns of the early Royal Society. This wide-ranging study challenges the current conventionally narrow view of mathematics in the time of the 17th-century 'scientific revolution'.