Conserving the Enlightenment: French Military Engineering from Vauban to the Revolution

by Janis Langins

A study of French military engineers at a crucial point in the evolution of modern engineering.

The origins of the modern science of engineering can be traced to France's Royal Corps of Engineering in the eighteenth century. In Conserving the Enlightenment, Janis Langins gives us a history of this prototypical technical bureaucracy, using as his point of entry a pivotal dispute on the respective merits of two methods of engineering...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262122588
• ISBN13: 9780262122580
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 568 Pages
• Weight: 2.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.7" x 8.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher