The Birth of Experimental Hydraulics
2015
The present work not only analizes the contexts in which Experimental Hydraulics was developed but also the most outstanding contributions of its most important exponents during the XVI and XVII centuries. It is discussed about of the origin and incipient evolution of Hydraulics as a science when observation and experimentation were incorporated as the basis of scientific reasoning. Besides, the economic, politic and social context of Renaissance is analyzed as well as the life of the main developers of this scientific discipline: Leonardo Da Vinci, Galileo Galilei, Evangelista Torricelli, Edme Mariotte y Domenico Guglielmini.
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