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By Francis C. Moon

This ebook comprises 4 components which really should still most sensible be understood as 4 seperate essays through an analogous writer. the 1st of those is a biographical comparability of Leonardo da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux, a German engineering educator of the past due 19th century. notwithstanding first and foremost this can appear a little absurd, the purpose the writer makes is that during their method of describing mechanical units there's a lot similarity among the 2. to be able to identify that, Francis Moon demonstrates an intensive mastery of the documentary facts of da Vinci and nice familiarity with the paintings of Reuleaux, rather his library of actual types of mechanisms. the second one essay is a historic precis of the evolution of the layout of machines from precedent days into the twentieth century. this can be a attention-grabbing research that makes a speciality of the extent of connection among mathematical analytical knowing and intuitive kinematic realizing of mechanical laptop layout. It addresses the often missed subject of the way engineers of the earlier designed issues. To an engineer there aren't any finish of attention-grabbing issues lined as for instance,a comparability of the flying machines designs of da Vinci and Otto Lilienthal, who used to be a pupil of Reuleaux. The 3rd essay is a chain of short comparisons of 20 detailed mechanisms defined in a few element by way of either da Vinci and Reuleaux of their writings. it truly is challenging to not be desirous about this, not less than when you are a mechanical engineer. The fourth essay is a bibliographical assessment of a lot of the fabric the ebook relies on. this is often not at all the least attention-grabbing half. i believe the e-book may need learn a bit extra coherently if the second one essy so as were the 1st yet that might probably long gone opposed to the relative order of the identify and subtitle of the e-book.

i stopped up giving this publication 5 stars although it is especially a lot a tutorial paintings, with major repetition and restricted narrative thrust. For something, the illustrations are nearly innumerable (143 to be numerous)and of significant caliber even though occasionally unavoidably a bit small in replica. subsequent the reference fabric is very available either within the final essay but additionally extra specially through the textual content. eventually the publication is a handy access approach and advisor to a web source, the KMODDL Kinematic versions for layout electronic Library at Cornell that's relatively wonderful.

To sum up, when you are truly drawn to the subtitle of this e-book, "Kinematics of Machines from the Renaissance to the twentieth Century" then it is a 5 big name purchase with none doubt.

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Cam actuated lever: Codex Madrid I, Folio 6v . . . . . . . Positive-return cam with Reuleaux triangle: Reuleaux–Voigt Catalog, Model L-2 (Cornell Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Water wheel: Codex Madrid I, Folio 142r . . . . . . . . . Behrens–Dart pump and steam engine of 1867: Reuleaux– Voigt Catalog, Model I-7 (Cornell Collection of Kinematic Mechanisms) . . . . .

Theatre of Machines: Jacobus de Strada (1617); Cover with images of Archimedes and Vitruvius . . . . . . . . . . . Theatre of Machines: Vittorio Zonca (1607); Endless screw and winch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theatre of Machines: Georg Böckler (1661); Perpetual motion machine design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Theatre of Machines: Phillipe De le Hire (1695); Three-tooth escapement . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The Appendices in Part IV contain a valuable summary of ‘Theatre of Machines’ books from the 15th to the 19th century. This section also contains a set of problems and projects for students and instructors of design and history of engineering courses. Parts I and II were written so that sections could be read or assigned for study in a somewhat random order. The author hopes that the serial reader will not be too critical of a certain amount of redundancy in the background information. 2 MODERN APPLICATIONS OF KINEMATICS: LEONARDO IN YOUR TOOTHBRUSH The current era of technology has been called the microelectronics, and nanotechnology revolution.

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