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COULOMB'S MEMOIR ON STATICS: AN ESSAY IN THE HISTORY OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
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| By: |
Jacques Heyman |
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Hardback |
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£46.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1860940560 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781860940569 |
| Publisher: |
IMPERIAL COLLEGE PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 July, 1997 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Coulomb read his Essai on "some statical problems" to the French academy in 1773 and it was acknowledged as a document of importance in the history of engineering. It is reproduced in this book with an annotated English translation and discussion of the technical problems it treats. |
| Synopsis: |
Coulomb read his Essai on `some statical problems' to the French Academy in 1773. It is a document of great importance in the history of engineering since it laid the foundations of the modern science of soil mechanics and also discussed three other major problems of eighteenth-century civil engineering: the bending of beams, the fracture of columns and the calculation of abutment thrusts developed by masonry arches.Professor Heyman's book makes the Essai accessible to a wide range of engineers and historians of technology. It is here reproduced in full with an annotated English translation, a chapter elucidating Coulomb's references and with full discussion of the technical problems it treats. It concludes with some brief historical notes on Coulomb's life and technical education in eighteenth-century France. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Imperial College Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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