Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
by Langins, Janis
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- ISBN 10
- 0262122588
- ISBN 13
- 9780262122580
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The MIT Press, 2003 8vo (23.5 cm), XVI, 532 pp. Publisher's cloth backed boards and dust jacket. "The origins of the modern science of engineering can be traced to France's Royal Corps of Engineering in the eighteenth century. In Conserving the Enlightenment, Janis Langins gives us a history of this prototypical technical bureaucracy, using as his point of entry a pivotal dispute on the respective merits of two methods of engineering military fortifications. The story he tells of the tribulations of military engineers at the end of the Old Regime sheds light not only on the evolution of modern engineering but also on the difficulty of innovation in a technical bureaucracy." (from the publisher's description)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007042
- Title
- Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
- Author
- Langins, Janis
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0262122588
- ISBN 13
- 9780262122580
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, Ma
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- France
- Bookseller catalogs
- Architecture;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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