Was Galileo an Engineer?

Valleriani, Matteo

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“…His method of experimentation in studies was a trial and error, and he could fuse his intelligence with craftsmanship. 5,6 As an architect and civil engineer, Frei Otto also used experimentation and deployed physical models to find the optimal lightweight structures. 7 In a designerly approach of thinking, since solutions are a part of developing the problem, crafting and producing can also be tools to investigate the problem, examine its different facets, and further the wisdom about it.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

Haghir

Haghnazar

Moghaddam

et al. 2021

International Journal of Space Structures

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Complex freeform surfaces and structures are increasingly designed and used in the product and building industry due to the advances in mathematics and digital design tools. However, there is still a gap between designing freeform surfaces and fabricating them. The process of preparing freeform surfaces’ shop drawings is complicated, time-consuming, and lacks the mutual understanding among the stakeholders. Computational design and Building Information Modeling (BIM) can serve as a mediator agent for the integration of design goals with the geometric logic of constructability. They can also facilitate creating platforms for designing and evaluating freeform structures. This open-ended qualitative research attempts to develop a systematic methodology for automating the design and construction drafting process of freeform lattice space structure. Solving this complex geometric problem aims to benefit the design for construction and manufacturers and shrink the cost and time of the process. The study employs a 3D computer-aided design (CAD) tool and introduces an algorithm that generates a BIM model. The BIM model contains shop drawings and suggests the specifications of the main elements, such as beams, glass panels, and nodes.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

Haghir

Haghnazar

Moghaddam

et al. 2021

International Journal of Space Structures

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“…Besides making fundamental contributions to hydrostatics, mechanics, mathematics and astronomy, Stevin was employed as quartermaster to the Netherlands army, and published on practical topics including book-keeping, fortification, applied navigation, and drainage, alongside popularizing the use of decimals (Dijksterhuis, 1970). Galileo, as Valleriani's (2010) pioneering study Galileo Engineer describes, for much of his life earned a considerable share of his income teaching military engineering and manufacturing instruments: first a "geometric and military compass" for performing calculations and setting the elevation of artillery, and then optical instruments. Much of Galileo's theoretical work, moreover, was informed by his practical activities, notably his theory of the strength of beams that grew out of earlier consultancy on the performance of Venetian galleys.…”

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Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics

Kelly¹,

Gráda²

2022

J. Econ. Hist.

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Disputes over whether the Scientific Revolution contributed to the Industrial Revolution begin with the common assumption that natural philosophers and artisans formed distinct groups. In reality, these groups merged together through a diverse group of applied mathematics teachers, textbook writers, and instrument makers catering to a market ranging from navigators and surveyors to bookkeepers. Besides its direct economic contribution in diffusing useful numerical skills, this “practical mathematics” facilitated later industrialization in two ways. First, a large supply of instrument and watch makers provided Britain with a pool of versatile, mechanically skilled labor to build the increasingly complicated machinery of the late eighteenth century. Second, the less well-known but equally revolutionary innovations in machine tools—which, contrary to the Habbakuk thesis, occurred largely in Britain during the 1820s and 1830s to mass-produce interchangeable parts for iron textile machinery—drew on a technology of exact measurement developed for navigational and astronomical instruments.

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“…In contradistinction, for the protagonists of the ‘new science’, mechanics and astronomy were explicitly seen as physico-mathematical sciences. Taking the long-term perspective of Netz's essay, but also relying on other insights (Damerow and Renn 2012; Henninger-Voss 2000; Valleriani 2010), implies that theoretical knowledge about mechanical phenomena emerged from everyday experiences and the accumulation of practical know-how concerning tools and machines. These had a major role in leading to reflection, conceptualization and codification of mechanical intuitive explanations.…”

Section: The Historical Narrative Of Greek Mathematics: Between Antiq...mentioning

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Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science: Historical-philosophical reflections

Feldhay

2022

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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The paper presents some reflections concerned with Archimedes' legacy for the development of physico-mathematics in early modernity. First, I introduce Netz's main themes concerned with the achievements of two generations of Greek mathematicians in their context, including some comparisons with contemporary non-Greek mathematical cultures. My paper, then, points out the necessary conditions for the historical transmission of Archimedes' legacy on the one hand, and more generally for the mobility of bodies of knowledge on the other hand. In particular, I elaborate my perception of such transformations while focusing on four parameters for their analysis: (a) Transformations of the objects of knowledge through the gaze, the touch, as well as through linguistic or manual representations; (b) Transformations following a change in the boundaries between domains of knowledge; (c) Transformations related to the authority of particular carriers of knowledge and (d), Tansformations related to the place of knowledge.

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Was Galileo an Engineer?

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BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

BIM based decision-support tool for automating design to fabrication process of freeform lattice space structure

Connecting the Scientific and Industrial Revolutions: The Role of Practical Mathematics

Archimedes’ legacy for early modern science: Historical-philosophical reflections

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