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[Dave Monroe]

Galileo and the Challenge of the Arsenal
Letture Galileiane,
Florence, 21 March 2001.
Jürgen Renn and Matteo Valleriani, Max Planck Institute for the
History of Science, Berlin.
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Summary

The paper examines the empirical foundation of Galileo's two new
sciences, presented in the Discorsi. It argues that the second of
these sciences, Galileo's theory of motion, is largely rooted in the
practical knowledge on ballistics as it was accumulated by
contemporary experts on artillery. The empirical roots of the first of
his two new sciences, dealing with the strength of materials, are
analyzed on the basis of new sources documenting the practical
challenges of the construction of large galleys as they were faced by
the foremen of the Venetian Arsenal.

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On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:19 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Academic Vita of Norbert Wiener
>
> [...]
>
> 1940 Appointed chief consultant in the field of mechanical and
> electrical aids to computation for the National Defense Research
> Committee.
> Consultant with the NDRC's Office of Scientific Research and De-
> velopment, Statistical Research Group and Operational Research Lab-
> oratory at Columbia University.
> Consultant to the War-Preparedness Committee of the American
> Mathematical Society.
> Joined a team at MIT under S. H. Caldwell to study the guidance and
> control of antiaircraft fire.
> Worked on the theory and design of fire control apparatus for anti-
> aircraft guns with Julian Bigelow, under NDRC Project.
>
> [...]
>
> http://download.springer.com/static/pdf/740/bbm%253A978-3-0348-9252-0%252F1.pdf
>
> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:14 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Phillips, R.S. and P.R. Weiss,
>> “Theoretical Calculations on Best Smoothing of Position Data for
>> Gunnery Predictions,"
>> MIT Radiation Lab., Rept. 532, February, 1944
>>
>> https://books.google.com/books/about/Theoretical_Calculation_on_Best_Smoothin.html?id=p3kVHQAACAAJ
>>
>> http://www.worldcat.org/title/theoretical-calculation-on-best-smoothing-of-position-data-for-gunnery-prediction/oclc/13686687
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 16, 2015 at 2:06 AM, David Casseres
>> <david.casseres at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Oh yes.  Anyone interested in mechanizing computation always looked for the
>>> tasks that sent people scrambling to large, unwieldy printed tables. Gunnery
>>> was a low-hanging candidate, and I think that was the case all the way back
>>> to Babbage and Lovelace; indeed all the way back to Napier.
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:07 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> " in computing, you start by calculating the flight trajectory of
>>>> artillery shells, the task assigned the ENIAC IN 1946. " ---from DATAISM,
>>>> Steve Lohr, 2015
>>>>
>>>> Sent from my iPad-
>>>> Pynchon-l / http://www.waste.org/mail/?listpynchon-l
>>>
>>>
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