The Unknown Technology in Homer by SA Paipetis (2010).pdf

The Unknown Technology in Homer

HISTORY OF MECHANISM AND MACHINE SCIENCE

Vo l um e 9

Series Editor

MARCO CECCARELLI

Aims and Scope of the Series

This book series aims to establish a well deﬁned forum for Monographs and Pro-

ceedings on the History of Mechanism and Machine Science (MMS). The series

publishes works that give an overview of the historical developments, from the earli-

est times up to and including the recent past, of MMS in all its technical aspects.

This technical approach is an essential characteristic of the series. By discussing

technical details and formulations and even reformulating those in terms of modern

formalisms the possibility is created not only to track the historical technical devel-

opments but also to use past experiences in technical teaching and research today.

In order to do so, the emphasis must be on technical aspects rather than a purely

historical focus, although the latter has its place too.

Furthermore, the series will consider the republication of out-of-print older works

with English translation and comments.

The book series is intended to collect technical views on historical developments of

the broad ﬁeld of MMS in a unique frame that can be seen in its totality as an En-

cyclopaedia of the History of MMS but with the additional purpose of archiving and

teaching the History of MMS. Therefore the book series is intended not only for re-

searchers of the History of Engineering but also for professionals and students who

are interested in obtaining a clear perspective of the past for their future technical

works. The books will be written in general by engineers but not only for engineers.

Prospective authors and editors can contact the series editor, Professor M. Ceccarelli,

about future publications within the series at:

LARM: Laboratory of Robotics and Mechatronics

DiMSAT – University of Cassino

Via Di Biasio 43, 03043 Cassino (Fr)

Italy

E-mail: ceccarelli@unicas.it

For other titles published in this series, go to

www.springer.com/series/7481

S.A. Paipetis

The Unknown Technology

in Homer

S.A. Paipetis

Department of Mechanical Engineering

and Aeronautics

University of Patras

Patras 26500, Greece

From the original Greek “The Unknown Technology in Homer”, Esoptron Publications,

Athens, Greece, 2005.

Every effort has been made to contact the copyright holders of the articles and figures which have

been reproduced from other sources. Anyone who has not been properly credited is requested

to contact the publishers, so that due acknowledgements may be made in subsequent editions.

ISSN 1875-3442

e-ISSN 1875-3426

ISBN 978-90-481-2513-5

e-ISBN 978-90-481-2514-2

DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-2514-2

Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York

Library of Congress Control Number: 2010926584

No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any

means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written

permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose

of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work.

Printed on acid-free paper

Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)

Plik z chomika:

Inne pliki z tego folderu:

Inne foldery tego chomika: