The gap between theory and practice: hydrodynamical and hydraulical utopias in the 18th century

• Autores: Moritz Epple
• Localización: Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries / coord. por Claus Zittel, Vol. 2, 2008 (Volume two), ISBN 978-90-04-17050-6, págs. 457-493
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 1. Science and technology in the age of Enlightment -- II. Hydraulics -- III. Hydrodinamics -- IV. The limits of theory: the Resistance of ship's hulls and other bodies -- V. The limits of practice: the fountains at Sanssouci -- VI. Concluding remarks -- Selective bibliography