vBraun quote
Juan Cires Martinez
jcm at mat.upm.es
Wed Jan 3 10:07:00 CST 1996
We can read in The Book:
"So was the Rocket's terrible passage reduced, literally, to bourgeois
terms, terms of an equation such as that elegant blend of philosophy
and hardware, abstract change and hinged pivots of real metals which
describes motion under the aspect of yaw control:
d^2/phi/ d/phi/ /d/L /d/R
/theta/ ---- + /delta/* ---- + ---- (s_1 - s_2)/alfa/ = - ---- s_3 /beta/
dt^2 dt /d//alfa/ /d//beta/
preserving, possesing, steering between Scylla and Charybdis the
whole way to Brennschluss."
And I am sure that this has something to say wrt the discussion about
science and philosophy, but I can't really say what...
Saludos, Juan.
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