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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
MIT Press,
c2004.
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| Series: | Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
| Summary: | "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."--BOOK JACKET. |
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| Physical Description: | xiv, 532 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-521) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0262122588 (hbk.) 9780262122580 |