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A Vision on Machines

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A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms

Part of the book series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science ((HMMS,volume 10))

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In the western world, the practice of machine construction and the theory of mechanics came together at the end of the Renaissance with two lines of development: treatises in the form of rationally classified machine collections and machine studies as an application of mechanical physics.

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  1. Technical University of Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Emilio Bautista Paz, Javier Echávarri Otero & José Luis Muñoz Sanz

  2. University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy

    Marco Ceccarelli

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Paz, E.B., Ceccarelli, M., Otero, J.E., Sanz, J.L.M. (2009). A Vision on Machines. In: A Brief Illustrated History of Machines and Mechanisms. History of Mechanism and Machine Science, vol 10. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2512-8_8

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