Applications of Ballistics in the Eighteenth Century: A Necessity or Luxury?

十八世纪弹道学的应用：必需品还是奢侈？

• 批准号: 9810370
• 负责人: Brett Steele
• 金额: $ 1.38万
• 依托单位: University of California-Los Angeles
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1998
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1998-09-15 至 2000-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9810370&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Applications; Ballistics; Eighteenth; Century; Necessity

This project will produce a contextual history of ballistics, a topic situated at the intersection of rational mechanics, experimental physics, and engineering practice that will shed new light on the rise of Western military hegemony during the Age of Enlightenment. The work will contribute to the history of science, history of technology, and to global military history, explaining what made the Scientific and Military Revolutions of early modern Europe so revolutionary from a non-Western perspective.

该项目将产生弹道学的背景历史，一个位于理性力学，实验物理学和工程实践的交叉点的主题，将为启蒙时代西方军事霸权的崛起提供新的启示。这项工作将有助于科学史，技术史和全球军事史，从非西方的角度解释是什么使早期现代欧洲的科学和军事革命如此具有革命性。