Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science: Their Contributions and Legacies, Part 2 (History of Mechanism and Machine Science Book 7)

This is the second volume in a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers devoted to descriptions of the life and work of famous persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). Papers illustrate personalities by recognizing the people as well as their scientific activities, by looking mainly at technical developments in the historical evolution of the fields that today are grouped in MMS. Thus, the emphasis is on biographical notes describing the efforts and experiences of people who have contributed to the technical achievements at the core of each contributed paper. The papers in this second volume again cover a wide range within the field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS and will be of interest and motivation to the work (historical or not) of many. **Indexed in the Book Citation Index– Science (BKCI-S)** This is the ?rst volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect contributed papers in a framework that can serve as a dictionary of names of individuals who have made contributions to the discipline of MMS (Me- anism and Machine Science). This dictionary project has the peculiarity that, through descriptions of the ideas and work of these individuals, the papers will illustrate mainly technical developments in the historical evolution of the individual ?elds that today de?ne the scope of MMS. Thus the core of each contribution will be a survey of biographical notes describing the efforts and experiences of these people. Finding appropriate technical experts as authors for such papers and - couraging them to write them has been a challenge; it is a demanding and time-consuming effort to produce such in-depth articles that delve deeply into the historical background of their topics of expertise. This ?rst volume of the dictionary project has been possible thanks to the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared the initiative and have spent time and effort in prep- ing papers that have the novel characteristics of survey and historical notes. The papers in this volume cover the wide ?eld of the History of Mechanical Engineering with speci?c focus on MMS. I believe that a reader who takes advantage of the papers in this book, as well as future ones, will ?nd further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not) This is the second volume of a series of edited books whose aim is to collect c- tributed papers within a framework that can serve as a collection of persons in MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). This is a continuation of the first volume that was published in 2008, again combining very ancient and very recent scholars in order to give not only an encyclopaedic character to this project but also to emphasize the significance of MMS over time. This project has the characteristic that the papers illustrate, by recognizing p- sons and their scientific work, mainly technical developments in the historical evolution of the fields that today are grouped in MMS. Thus, emphasis is also given to biographical notes describing efforts and experiences of people who have c- tributed to the technical achievements whose technical survey is the core of each contributed paper. This second volume of the project has been possible thanks to the invited authors who have enthusiastically shared in this initiative and who have spent time and effort in preparing the papers. The stand-alone papers cover the wide field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS. I believe that readers will take advantage of the papers in this book and future ones by supplying further satisfaction and motivation for her or his work (historical or not). Pt. 1. Archimedes (287-212 Bc) / Thomas G. Chondros -- Agustín De Betancourt Y Molina (1758-1824) / Juan Ignacio Cuadrado Iglesias -- Oene Bottema (1901-1992) / Teun Koetsier -- William Kingdon Clifford (1845-1879) / Joe Rooney -- Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) / Teresa Zielinska -- Alexander Yershov (1818-1867) / Alexander Golovin And Dina Mktychyan -- Ferdinand Freudenstein (1926-2006) / Bernard Roth -- Kurt Hain (1908-1995) / Hanfried Kerle -- Heron Of Alexandria (c. 10-85 Ad) / Evangelos Papadopoulos -- Willibald Lichtenheldt (1901-1980) / Kurt Luck -- Xian-zhou Liu (1890-1975) / Hong-sen Yan ... [et Al.] -- Giulio Mozzi (1730-1813) / Marco Ceccarelli -- Théodore Olivier (1793-1853) / J.m. Hervé -- Ufimtsev Anatoly Georgievich (1880-1936) / Sergey Jatsun -- James Watt (1736-1819) / Gordon R. Pennock -- Walter Wunderlich (1910-1998) / Manfred Husty. Edited By Marco Ceccarelli. Includes Bibliographical References. Front Matter....Pages i-viii AL-JAZARI (1136–1206)....Pages 1-21 Ivan Ivanovich Artobolevski (1905–1977)....Pages 23-42 Ludwig Burmester (1840–1927)....Pages 43-64 Henry George (Harry) Ferguson (1884–1960)....Pages 65-94 Juanelo (1501–1585)....Pages 95-110 José María Lanz y Zaldívar (1764–1839)....Pages 111-121 Nicolae Manolescu (1907–1993)....Pages 123-139 Francesco Masi (1852–1944)....Pages 141-162 Adam Morecki (1929–2001)....Pages 163-174 Feodor Orlov 1843–1892....Pages 175-197 Todor Pantelić (1923–1999)....Pages 199-215 Ferdinand Jakob Redtenbacher (1809–1863)....Pages 217-245 Wang Zheng (1571–1644)....Pages 247-259 Back Matter....Pages 261-261