A short tale of the short story of the sliding rule |
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| Andrea Bacciotti |
- Abstract:
- The ideation and the design of scientific instruments for measuring and computing have been (and actually they are) often promoted by motivations of strong social and economic interest. In turn, the improvements of instruments influenced the development of new theories. An emblematic example is the story of the sliding rule. In this note, we illustrate the historical origin of the sliding rule, the underlying mathematical principle, and how it can be used to perform arithmetic computations.
- Download:
- IMEKO-TC4-METROARCHAEO-2019-95.pdf
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- Event details
- IMEKO TC:
- TC4
- Event name:
- TC4 MetroArchaeo 2019
- Title:
IMEKO TC4 International Conference on Metrology for Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
- Place:
- Florence, ITALY
- Time:
- 04 December 2019 - 06 December 2019