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Simon Stevin

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Author : George Sarton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1934

Simon Stevin written by George Sarton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1934 with Decimal fractions categories.

Rethinking Stevin Stevin Rethinking

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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-10-20

Rethinking Stevin Stevin Rethinking written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-20 with Science categories.

This book studies the Dutch mathematician Simon Stevin (1548-1620) as a new type of ‘man of knowledge’. Traditionally, Stevin is best known for his contributions to the ‘Archimedean turn’. This innovative volume moves beyond this conventional image by bringing many other aspects of his work into view, by analysing the connections between the multiple strands of his thinking and by situating him in a broader European context. Like other multi-talents (‘polymaths’) in his time (several of whom are discussed in this volume), Stevin made an important contribution to the transformation of the ideal of knowledge in early modern Europe. This book thus provides new insights into the phenomenon of ‘polymaths’ in general and in the case of Stevin in particular.

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin Engineering

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Author : Simon Stevin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin Engineering written by Simon Stevin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Engineering categories.

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin Engineering Edited By R J Forbes Music Edited By A D Fokker Civic Life Edited By A Romein Verschoor

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Author : Simon Stevin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1966

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin Engineering Edited By R J Forbes Music Edited By A D Fokker Civic Life Edited By A Romein Verschoor written by Simon Stevin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1966 with Engineering categories.

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin

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Author : Simon Stevin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin written by Simon Stevin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1955 with Citizenship categories.

Magic Is No Magic

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Author : Jozef T. Devreese
language : en
Publisher: WIT Press
Release Date : 2008-11-12

Magic Is No Magic written by Jozef T. Devreese and has been published by WIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-12 with Mathematics categories.

This book gives a comprehensive picture of the activities and the creative heritage of Simon Stevin, who made outstanding contributions to various fields of science, in particular physics and mathematics. Among the striking spectrum of his ingenious achievements, it is worth emphasizing that Simon Stevin is rightly considered as the father of the system of decimal fractions as it is in use today. Stevin also urged the universal use of decimal fractions along with standardization in coinage, measures and weights. This was a most visionary proposal. Stevin was the first since Archimedes to make a significant new contribution to statics and hydrostatics. He truly was "homo universalis." The impact of Stevin's work has been multilateral and worldwide, including literature (William Shakespeare), science (from Christian Huygens to Richard Feynman), politics (Thomas Jefferson) and many other fields. Thomas Jefferson, together with Alexander Hamilton and Robert Morris, advocated introducing the decimal monetary units in the USA with reference to the book "De Thiende" by S. Stevin and in particular to the English translation of the book: "Disme: The Art of Tenths" by Robert Norton. In accordance with the title of this translation, the name of the first silver coin issued in the USA in 1792 was 'disme' (since 1837 the spelling changed to ('dime'). It was considered as a symbol of national independence of the USA.

Polyglot Texts And Translations In Early Modern Europe

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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2025-02-27

Polyglot Texts And Translations In Early Modern Europe written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-27 with Literary Collections categories.

Early modern culture was multilingual, and so were many of the works produced across Europe and beyond its borders. The contributors to this volume draw new interrelations between different humanistic traditions and multilingual and translational writing practices using a wide range of primary sources—documents produced in Norwich, scientific treatises by Galileo and Stevin, travel accounts and dictionaries by James Howell, translations an retranslations of Antoine de Nervèze’s moral letters, Aljamiado documents and short comic plays in Spain, Jesuit pedagogical theater in New France, grammars, dictionaries and historiographical accounts in missionary contexts, and a mining law code in South Central Europe—that highlight the significance of polyglossia in early modern cultural production and transmission. Covering a wide range of languages, including Latin, Nahuatl and Turkish, their analysis invites comparison with today’s polyglot practices in a globalized world, as we also adapt to new technologies and ever-changing realities.

The Principal Works Of Simon Stevin

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Author : Simon Stevin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1955

The Origins Of Statics

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Author : Pierre Duhem
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

The Origins Of Statics written by Pierre Duhem and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.

If ever a major study of the history of science should have acted like a sudden revolution it is this book, published in two volumes in 1905 and 1906 under the title, Les origines de la statique. Paris, the place of publication, and the Librairie scientifique A. Hermann that brought it be enough of a guarantee to prevent a very different out, could seem to outcome. Without prompting anyone, for some years yet, to follow up the revolutionary vistas which it opened up, Les origines de la statique certainly revolutionized Duhem's remaining ten or so years. He became the single-handed discoverer of a vast new land of Western intellectual history. Half a century later it could still be stated about the suddenly proliferating studies in medieval science that they were so many commentariesonDuhem's countlessfindings and observations. Of course, in 1906, Paris and the intellectual world in general were mesmerized by Bergson's Evolution creatrice, freshly off the press. It was meant to bring about a revolution. Bergson challenged head-on the leading dogma of the times, the idea of mechanistic evolution. He did so by noting, among other things, that to speak of vitalism was at least a roundabout recognition of scientific ignorance about a large number of facts concerning life-processes. He held high the idea of a "vital impetus passing through matter," and indeed through all matter or the universe, an impetus thatcould be detected only through intuitiveknowledge.

Translating Early Modern Science

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Author : Sietske Fransen
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2017-09-25

Translating Early Modern Science written by Sietske Fransen and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09-25 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.

Translating Early Modern Science explores the essential role translators played in a time when the scientific community used Latin and vernacular European languages side-by-side. This interdisciplinary volume illustrates how translators were mediators, agents, and interpreters of scientific knowledge.

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