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Titre :
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Flow velocity measurement in Italy between Renaissance and Risorgimento (2011)
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Auteurs :
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Mario Di Fidio, Auteur ;
Claudio Gandolfi, Auteur
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Type de document :
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Article : texte imprimé
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Dans :
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Journal of hydraulic research (Vol. 49 N° 5, Septembre/Octobre 2011)
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Article en page(s) :
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pp. 578-585
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Note générale :
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Hydraulique
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Langues :
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Anglais
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Index. décimale :
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627 (Ingénierie des cours d'eau naturels, des ports, des rades et des cotes. Installations de navigation, de dragage, de récupération et de sauvetage. Barrages et centrales électriques hydrauliques)
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Tags :
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Flow velocity History Hydraulics Velocity meter distribution
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Résumé :
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A review of the main instruments developed in Italy over more than two centuries to measure flow velocity of experience is presented, highlighting the relation with the development of hydraulics as a physical–mathematical science from the seventeenth century. The number and variety of Italian velocity meters partly reflect the vitality of a tradition, characterized by political polycentrism and rivalry among the individual cities and universities. In other aspects, the invention of ever-newer measuring instruments corresponds to the attitude of many of the early Italian hydraulicians, who interpreted hydraulics as a science of nature, based almost exclusively on observation and experience, which requires rather the gift of intuition than mathematical deduction. This work is part of a project of the BEIC Library and of the University of Milan, which will make available digital versions of hundreds of Italian historic texts of hydraulics on the portal www.beic.it.
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DEWEY :
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627
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ISSN :
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0022-1686
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En ligne :
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http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00221686.2011.594599
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