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ENGINEERING
AND
ENGINEERS
DE DIVERSIS ARTIBUS
COLLECTION DETRA VAUX
DE
L'
ACADEMI E INTERNATIO NALE
D'HISTOIR E DES SCIENCES
COLLECTION OF STUDIES
FROM THE INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY
OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
DIRECTION
EDITORS
EMMANU EL
ROBERT
POULLE
HALLEU X
TOME 60 (N.S. 23)
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PROCEEDINGS OF THE
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS
OF HISTORY OF SCIENCE (Liege, 20-26 July 1997)
VOLUME XVII
xxth
ENGINEERING AND
ENGINEERS
Edited
by
Michael Ciaran DUFFY
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The XX
1h
International Congress of History of Science was organized by the
Belgian National Committee for Logic, History and Philosophy of Science
with the support of :
Chambre de Commerce et d'Industrie
de la Ville de Liege
Club liegeois des Exportateurs
Cockerill Sambre Group
Credit Communal
FWO
Derouaux Ordina sprl
Communaute franc;:aise de Belgique
Disteel Cold s.a.
Region Wallonne
Etilux s.a.
Service des Affaires culturelles de la Ville Fabrimetal Liege - Luxembourg
de Liege
Generale Bank n.v. -
Service de l'Enseignement de la Ville
Generale de Banque s.a.
de Liege
Interbrew
Universite de Liege
L'Esperance Commerciale
Comite Sluse asbl
Maison de la Metallurgie et de l'Industrie
Federation du Tourisme de la Province
de Liege
de Liege
Office des Produits wallons
College Saint-Louis
Peeters
Institut d'Enseignement superieur
Peket de Houyeu
"Les Rivageois"
Petrofina
Rescolie
Academic Press
Sabena
Agora-Beranger
SNCB
APRIL
Societe chimique Prayon Rupel
Banque Nationale de Belgique
SPE Zone Sud
Carlson Wagonlit Travel -
TEC Liege - Verviers
Incentive Travel House
Vulcain Industries
ICSU
Ministere de la Politique scientifique
Academie Royale de Belgique
Koninklijke Academie van Belgie
FNRS
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2002 Brepols Publishers n.v., Turnhout, Belgium
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
History, philosophy and the changing nature of engineering ......................... 7
Michael Ciaran DUFFY
Les ingenieurs de la Renaissance et leurs manuscrits et traites illustres ..... 23
Eberhard KNOBLOCH
Hydraulics in the late Renaissance, 1550-1625.
Mathematicians' involvement in hydraulic engineering
and the " mathematical architects " ............................................................... 67
Cesare S. MAFFIOLI
The Mathematician as engineer in the l 7
1h
century :
Leibniz and engineering hydraulics ............................................................... 77
James
G.
O'HARA
Models at the beginning of modem civil engineering :
development of the concepts and three examples ......................................... 91
Bruno MEYER
Changing images of Edison in biographies and their
social context. ............................................................................................... 101
Shigeo SUGIYAMA
Industrial engineering studies in Spain in the l
9th
century ........................ 107
Jose M. CANO p AVON
The contributions of the civil and military engineers
in the development of the machines' mechanics in the
19
1h
century in Russia .................................................................................. 117
Margarita M. VORONINA
Paul Vo"inarovski et l'Institut Montefiore .................................................... 123
Konstantin SEVERINOV et Vera SEVERINOV A
The modernisation of China's mechanical engineering under the
influence of the West (1581-1985) .............................................................. 133
Baichun ZHANG
A short historical and epistemological analysis of the signifiance
of the work of Romanian engineer and physicist
Alexandru Proca (1897-1955) ..................................................................... 143
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