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A Search for Structure

Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History

By: Cyril Stanley Smith

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A Search for Structure

Selected Essays on Science, Art, and History

By: Cyril Stanley Smith

&"As an old admirer of Cyril Smith, I'm delighted to learn that a collection of his essays on the arts will be published. They are a unique body of work which only he could have produced.&" &-Meyer Schapiro Science, art, and history all share common or analogous patterns of hierarchical order that are embedded into the structure of the material world as well. This is a central insight of these essays by a generalist who has also spent a lifetime working in his specialty, the nature of materials. To Cyril Stanley Smith, the transformation of metals from one state to another, or the contrasts at one level that merge through repetition into uniformity at a higher level, carries solid metaphorical implications for the human condition. Cyril Stanley Smith's own expansion of outlook to encompass successively technology, science, history, and art is loosely implicit in the chronological ordering of the fourteen essays included in this volume and explicitly developed in one of them that &"comes as close to an autobiography as I am ever likely to write&" and traces the evolution of Smith's ideas on science and art. Trained as an industrial metallurgist, Smith turned to the purely scientific study of the structure of metals and alloys after his experience at Los Alamos during World War II, drawn in part by his delight in the intrinsic beauty of these structural manifestations of symmetry and natural design. A growing interest in the history of the science and technology of materials led him to consult the artifactual evidence&-the art objects in museums that either greatly predate written historical records or provide, through scientific examination, more reliable information than do the surviving documents of their period. This direct contact with fine or formal art only reinforced Smith's intuition that the aesthetic impulse is at play over the full range of human activity, whether it leads to the making of a bronze sculpture, a scientific theory, or a social reorganization. A variety of investigations of art objects is cited in the text, and the author regards the accompanying illustrations to be as important as the text. In particular, the essays make the case that historically many advances and discoveries regarding metals and ceramics came about through aesthetic curiosity and the desire to improve works of fine and decorative art, rather than through scientific investigation or in response to the need for products having practical utility. Many techniques and even whole industries, Smith writes, began with the making and reproduction of art works. Other essays deal with the emerging understanding of the remarkable properties of steel, the positive uses of corrosion, ancient casting and molding techniques, and the connection between attempts to reproduce oriental porcelain in Europe and modern geological ideas. Still others are more philosophical in approach.

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Mit Press

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0262690829

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9780262690829

On Divers Arts

The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork

By: Theophilus (Presbyter.),John G. Hawthorne,Cyril Stanley Smith

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On Divers Arts

The Foremost Medieval Treatise on Painting, Glassmaking, and Metalwork

By: Theophilus (Presbyter.),John G. Hawthorne,Cyril Stanley Smith

First printed in the 12th century, here is the earliest treatise on the arts written by a practicing artist. Offering an essential understanding of pre-Renaissance art and technology, the Benedictine author details pigments, glass blowing, stained glass, gold and silver work, and more — information of great importance to craftsmen and historians of art and science. Includes 34 illustrations.

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276

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Courier Corporation

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0486237842

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9780486237848

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

By: Dr. Mary Ross,Cyril Stanley Smith,Ulrich von Kalbe,Anneliese Sisco

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BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

By: Dr. Mary Ross,Cyril Stanley Smith,Ulrich von Kalbe,Anneliese Sisco

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores was published before 1518 and was the first book on mining ever printed. With references to alchemy and astronomy this English translation of the German text includes the full text and original woodcut illustrations. BERGBUCLIEN pre-dates DE RE METALLICA by four decades and sections of BERGBUCHLEIN were used by Georgius Agricola in his landmark text. Republished every century since its origination in the 1500s, with this edition BERGBUCHLEIN is once again available to audiences interested in the historical views of mining and ore formation.

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Lulu.com

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0956832261

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Structure-Property Relationships under Extreme Dynamic Environments

Shock Recovery Experiments

By: Cyril Williams

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Structure-Property Relationships under Extreme Dynamic Environments

Shock Recovery Experiments

By: Cyril Williams

The inelastic response and residual mechanical properties acquired from most shock compressed solids are quite different from those acquired from quasi-static or moderate strain rates. For instance, the residual hardness of many shock compressed metals has been found to be considerably lower than those loaded under quasi-static conditions to the same maximum stress. However, the residual hardness of shock compressed metals is much higher than those loaded quasi-statically to the same total strain. These observations suggest that the deformation mechanisms active during inelastic deformation under shock compression and quasi-static or moderate rates may be quite different. Therefore, the primary objective of this short book is to offer the reader a concise introduction on the Structure-Property Relationships concerning shock compressed metals and metallic alloys via shock recovery experiments. The first phase of the book, chapters 1 through 3 provides a brief historical perspective on the structure-property relationships as it pertains to shock compression science, then plastic deformation in shock compressed metals and metallic alloys is described in terms of deformation slip, deformation twinning, and their consequences to spall failure. Existing knowledge gaps and limitations on shock recovery experiments are also discussed. The fundamentals of shock wave propagation in condensed media are presented through the formation and stability of shock waves, then how they are treated using the Rankine-Hugoniot jump relations derived from the conservation of mass, momentum, and energy. The equation of states which govern the thermodynamic transition of a material from the unshock state to the shock state is briefly described and the elastic-plastic behavior of shock compressed solids is presented at the back end of the first phase of this book. The second phase of the book describes the geometry and design of shock recovery experiments using explosives, gas and powder guns. Then results derived from the residual mechanical properties, microstructure changes, and spall failure mechanisms in shock compressed metals and metallic alloys with FCC, BCC, and HCP crystal lattice structures are presented. Also, results on the residual microstructure of explosively compacted powders and powder mixtures are presented. Lastly, the book closes with the new frontiers in shock recovery experiments based on novel materials, novel microscopes, novel mechanical processing techniques, and novel time-resolved in-situ XRD shock experiments.

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Springer Nature

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3031797256

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9783031797255

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

By: Dr. Mary Ross,Cyril Stanley Smith,Ulrich von Kalbe,Anneliese Sisco

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By: Dr. Mary Ross,Cyril Stanley Smith,Ulrich von Kalbe,Anneliese Sisco

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A Search for Structure

A Search for Structure

On Divers Arts

On Divers Arts

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

Structure-Property Relationships under Extreme Dynamic Environments

Structure-Property Relationships under Extreme Dynamic Environments

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

BERGBUCHLEIN, The Little Book on Ores: The First Mining Book Ever Printed

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