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Isis ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-179
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Lefèvre
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Town Planning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Simon Stevin

scholarly journals Reconstrucción digital 3D del patrimonio histórico de Agustín de Betancourt: la máquina para cortar hierba en canales navegables

2016 ◽  
Vol 7 (14) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
José Ignacio Rojas-Sola ◽  
José Porras-Galán ◽  
Laura García-Ruesgas
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
3D Model ◽  
Civil Engineering ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Baseline Information ◽  
History Of ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
Solid Edge

Agustín de Betancourt y Molina was one of the most distinguished engineers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries with numerous contributions to various fields of engineering, including civil engineering. This research shows the process followed in the documentation of the cultural heritage of that Canary engineer, especially in the geometric documentation of a machine for cutting grass in waterways presented in England in 1795 after three years researching on theory of machines. The baseline information has been recovered from the Canary Orotava Foundation of History of Science who has spent years collecting information about the Project Betancourt, in particular, planimetric information as well as a small report on its operation and description of parts of machine. From this information, we have constructed a three dimensional (3D) model using CAD techniques with the use of Solid Edge ST7 parametric software, which has enabled the team to create the 3D model as well as different detail plans and exploded views.

BOUNDARIES AND AUDIENCES OF NATIONAL HISTORIES OF SCIENCE: INSIGHTS FROM THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF THE NETHERLANDS

Nuncius ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-345
Author(s):  
ERNST HOMBURG
Keyword(s):  
The Netherlands ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Economic History ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Science And Technology ◽  
History Of Technology ◽  
Third Wave ◽  
Strongly Connected ◽  
History Of ◽  
New Research

Abstracttitle ABSTRACT /title The present paper traces the evolution of writing national-oriented histories of science and technology of the Netherlands. Several episodes are distinguished. A first wave of national histories of science and technology was written during the first decades of the 19th century. These histories had a wide scope, which included science, technology, the humanities and the arts. A second wave, which lasted from about 1865 to 1900, was strongly connected to the rise of the scientific professions. Its focus was on the sciences per se, and on the Dutch "Golden Age" of the 17th century. A third wave occurred during and shortly after the Second World War. Its focus was mainly on the "Second Golden Age" of Dutch science (1870-1910), and its major audience were young boys that were to be recruited to the sciences. The second part of the paper discusses the growing influence of "contextualization" in both the history of science and the history of technology from about 1975 onwards. As a result, local factors often received more attention in historical studies of science and technology than national influences. In 1985, Klaas van Berkel undertook a bold attempt to write a new synthesis of the history of Dutch science, but his approach was too strongly influenced by the three previous waves of national histories. From 1989 to 2003 two projects on the national history of technology resulted in 13 volumes on Dutch technology between 1800 and 1970. New research was initiated, and the issue of "national styles" in the development of technology received ample attention. In his conclusions the author points to lessons to be learned from economic history and the history of art, and he concludes with a plea for more historiographical discussion in the history of science and technology.

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