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The Unknown Technology in Homer

The Unknown Technology in Homer


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Provisional Table of Contents, April 2008: Preface; PART I: INTRODUCTION 1. HOMER AND HOMERIC EPICS 2. TROY AND THE MYTHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF THE WAR 3. ACHILLES AND THE 'MENIS' 4. THE WAR AND THE FALL OF TROY 5. THE ODYSSEY OF HOMECOMING 6. TROJAN WAR AND CULTURAL TRADITION 7. KNOWLEDGE IN THE HOMERIC EPICS 8. SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PART II: PRINCIPLES OF NATURAL SCIENCE 9. CURVILINEAR MOTION 10. CREEP IN WOOD 11. HYDRODYNAMICS OF VORTICES AND THE GRAVITY SLING PART III: AUTOMATION AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE 12. HEPHAESTUS' FORGE 12.1 The bellows 12.2 The self-propelled tripods 12.3 The traps 13. THE ROBOTS OF HEPHAESTUS 14. THE PHAEACIAN SHIPS AND THE UAV9s PART IV: DEFENSIVE WEAPONS IN THE EPICS 15. STRUCTURAL MATERIALS IN HOMER AND IN MODERN TIMES 16. THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES 17. THE SHIELD OF AJAX 18. OTHER DEFENSIVE WEAPONRY 18.1 The helmet of Ulysses 18.2 The shield of Hercules according to Hesiode 18.3 The Roman shield according to Polybius PART V: FURTHER ISSUES 19. THE TROJAN HORSE 20. MYCENAEAN BUILDiNG 21. THE ADMIRABLE HOMERIC METER EPILEGOMENON AND CONCLUSIONS APPENDIX: THE FORGE (a literary and symbolic approach)


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9789400732445
  • Publisher: Springer
  • Publisher Imprint: Springer
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 210
  • Series Title: History of Mechanism and Machine Science
  • Weight: 367 gr
  • ISBN-10: 9400732449
  • Publisher Date: 05 Sep 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 15 mm
  • Width: 155 mm


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