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Article: Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- September 22, 2007
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Larrie D. Ferreiro. Ships and Science: The Birth of Naval Architecture in the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1800.
Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2007. xxiv + 442 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-262-06259-3.
This book begins with a long prologue and ends with a short epilogue about the life of eighteenth-century French savant Pierre Bouguer, most famous for his metacentric theory of ship stability. Accordingly, one might expect to find an intellectual biography of Bouguer here--and Bouguer is clearly the hero of the story, always turning up with the right theory at the right time. Alas, instead of Bouguer, the author declares his subject ...