Conserving the Enlightenment : French military engineering from Vauban to the Revolution /

"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 t...

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Main Author: Langins, Jānis
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2004.
Series:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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