The writings that most closely belong to the discipline of history, and in particular the history of shipbuilding, are papers containing arguments quite different from each other, or very informative or very specialized. The scientist is often embarrassed in reading these books because they are written from a humanistic, and they are not scientific-technical papers, sometimes they are complemented with mathematical formulas and diagrams written in obsolete languages, designed to discern the paths of history passed, and adjacent to a discipline that looks to the near future and not in the past, a history too often forgotten. The Scientia navalis or Naval Science, which Leonhard Euler (1707 - 1783) was a teacher and somewhat precursor, from time immemorial languishing on the shelves of libraries, neglected by scholars. This occurred because the discipline has come to self-awareness, especially in the contemporary age, when, following the example of the Galilean revolution, the community of surveyors and scholars of mechanics oriented his attention to the problems of shipbuilding and vessel operations, which at first seemed disciplines entrusted only to the skill of the shipwright, carpenters and the Masters and Shipmasters on board ships, as well as to the wisdom of tradition. History, however, is a fascinating and fruitful field of study for some guidance because by understanding what has been achieved in the past, has been able to establish a more consistent definition of science and technology to be used in applied in the design and construction. Even for shipbuilding, in fact, the sedimentation of knowledge of the past passed down orally by the shipwright to their students and then taught in the schools of Naval Engineering in France scrolls and founded by Jean- Baptiste Colbert (1619 - 1683) Secretary of the French Navy in the seventeenth century, has been able to point the way to address and solve static and structural problems, but also those related to material behaviour and then, thanks to the Enlightenment of the eighteenth century, those relating to navigation and manoeuvring of vessels. Only in this way it was possible to achieve those goals of technical and technological developments that have allowed the massive shipbuilding industry in the nineteenth century, following the same “logic” that guided the ancient builders and shipwrights, thus obtaining accurate and effective design and construction solutions.

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Euler,
Leonhard.
Scien&a
Navalis
seu
Tractatus
de
Construendis
ac
Dirigendis
Navibus.
St.
Petersburg:
Typis
Academiae
ScienLarum,
1749
[First
ediLon].
Historical
awareness
in
the
science
of
shipbuilding
The
Scien&a
navalis
[Euler,
1749]
or
Naval
Science,
which
Leonhard
Euler
(1707
-­‐
1783)
was
a
teacher
and
in
its
own
way
a
precursor,
from
Lme
immemorial
languishing
on
the
bookcases
of
libraries,
neglected
by
scholars.
This
occurred
because
the
discipline
has
come
to
self-­‐awareness,
especially
in
the
contemporary
age,
when,
following
the
example
of
the
Galilean
revoluLon,
the
community
of
mathemaLcians
and
scholars
of
mechanics
oriented
his
aYenLon
to
the
problems
of
shipbuilding
and
vessel
operaLons,
which
at
first
seemed
disciplines
entrusted
only
to
the
skill
of
the
shipwright,
carpenters
and
the
Masters
and
Shipmasters
[Elias,
2010]
on
board
ships,
as
well
as
to
the
wisdom
of
tradiLon.
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Grande
ordonnance
de
la
marine
d'août
1681
(Ordonnance
de
Colbert).
Even
for
shipbuilding,
in
fact,
the
sedimentaLon
of
knowledge
of
the
past
passed
down
orally
by
the
shipwright
to
their
students
and
then
taught
in
the
schools
of
Naval
Engineering
in
France
desired
and
founded
by
Jean-­‐
BapLste
Colbert
(1619
–
1683).
Colbert,
Secretary
of
the
French
Navy
in
the
seventeenth
century,
has
been
able
to
point
the
way
to
address
and
solve
staLc
and
structural
problems,
but
also
those
related
to
material
behaviour
and
then,
thanks
to
the
Enlightenment
of
the
eighteenth
century,
those
relaLng
to
navigaLon
and
manoeuvring
of
vessels.

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StarLng
from
the
Architectura
navalis
[1629]
by
Joseph
FurYenbach
(1591-­‐1667),
conLnuing
with
L’Architecture
Navale
[1677]
by
François
Dassie
(XVII
cent.),
to
get
to
the
mature
works
of
Bernard
Renau
d’Éliçagaray
(1652
-­‐
1719)
[1690],
Pierre
Bouguer
(1698
-­‐
1758)
[1746;
1753;
1757],
Charles
Romme
(1745
-­‐
1805)
[1787],
not
to
menLon
that
some
of
the
most
well-­‐known
scholars,
and
finally
arrive
at
the
fundamental
work
of
Henri
Louis
Duhamel
du
Monceau
(1700
-­‐
1782)
on
Architecture
and
construcLon
of
naval
vessels
[1752],
the
treaLses
of
Naval
Architecture,
construcLon
and
manoeuvring
of
the
vessels,
associated
with
the
early
studies
of
mechanics
and
hydrodynamics
[Bernoulli,
1738],
have
traced
the
basics
of
the
Arts
of
shipbuilding
and
seamanship.
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Crone,
Ernst;
Dijksterhuis,
E.
J.;
Forbes,
R.
J.
et
al.
(eds.).
The
Principal
Works
of
Simon
Stevin.
Lisse:
Swets
&
Zeitlinger,
1955–1966.
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Euler
was
«
the
first
...
to
express
mathema&cally
the
resistance
mee&ng
a
ship
on
its
path
through
the
water
»
and
«
Leonhard
Euler
first
explained
the
role
of
pressure
in
fluid
flow;
formulated
basic
equa&ons
of
mo&on
and
the
so-­‐called
Bernoulli
theorem;
introduced
the
concept
of
cavita&on,
and
the
principle
of
centrifugal
machinery
»
[Rouse
and
Ince,
1957].
The
Euler
number
(En)
is
a
dimensionless
number
used
in
fluid
flow
calculaLons;
the
CavitaIon
number
(Cn)
is
a
dimensionless
number
used
in
flow
calculaLons.
En
=
pu
−pd
ρV2
(((((Cn
=
p−pv
1
2
ρV2
ρ
is
the
density
of
the
fluid
pu
is
the
upstream
pressure
pd
is
the
downstream
pressure
p
is
the
local
pressure
pv
is
the
vapor
pressure
of
the
fluid
V
is
a
characterisLc
velocity
of
the
flow

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Today,
however,
it
is
desirable
to
happen
a
significant
change
of
course;
those
who
are
paid
more
for
fronLer
research
should
perceive
that
a
genuine
advancement
of
physical
and
mathemaLcal
sciences,
as
well
as
structural
in
the
naval
field,
but
perhaps
especially
in
the
nauLcal
one,
must
not
only
be
a
unoriginal
exercise
das
rechnende
Denken,
as
MarLn
Heidegger
cites
(1889
-­‐
1976),
but
require
an
intense
effort
to
return
to
the
speculaLve
principles,
and
thus
feel
their
deep
meaning,
their
epistemological
status,
their
unspoken
or
unmenLoned
values.
Bouguer,
Metacentrum.
Pierre
Bouguer.
Traité
du
navire,
de
sa
construc&on
et
de
ses
mouvemens.
Paris:
chez
Jombert,
1746.

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The
need
to
formulate
plausible
interpretaLons
of
the
mechanical
behaviour
of
structures
and
materials,
research
processes
and
methods
of
calculaLon,
of
which
calls
for
a
simplificaLon
of
the
designer’s
intuiLon
to
bring
awareness
to
calculate,
must
consLtute
the
essenLal
support
that
is
needed
combine
with
the
historical
knowledge
in
a
conLnuous
sedimentaLon
of
theoreLcal
findings,
technical
developments
and
technological
processes,
which,
however,
is
precisely
the
object
of
study
of
historians.
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Charles
Romme.
L'Art
de
la
marine,
ou
principes
et
préceptes
généraux
de
l'art
de
construire
et
d'armer
les
vaisseaux.
Paris:
chez
Barrois,
1787.

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Suddenly
it
became
clear,
therefore,
that
the
Naval
Science
modelled,
since
the
scienLfic-­‐educaLonal
‘revoluLon’
occurred
in
the
seventeenth
and
eighteenth
centuries,
as
an
aid
to
the
problems
of
the
new
engineering
and
shipbuilding
sectors,
should
provide
appropriate
tools
and
methods
to
the
processes
of
design
and
construcLon.
Strong
knowledge,
although
remote
and
oten
associated
with
technical
notes
now
only
briefly,
was
to
enable
the
engineer
even
more
expert
in
his
discipline
to
formulate
design
criteria
and
calculaLon
tools
beyond
just
one
formal
‘analogy’
for
‘imitaLon’.
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As
Galileo
cites
in
his
Discorsi
e
dimostrazioni
matema&che
intorno
a
due
nuove
scienze
[Galileo,
1638]
:
«
The
constant
ac&vity
which
you
Vene&ans
display
in
your
famous
arsenal
suggests
to
the
studious
mind
a
large
field
for
inves&ga&on,
especially
that
part
of
the
work
which
involves
mechanics;
for
in
this
department
all
types
of
instruments
and
machines
are
constantly
being
constructed
by
many
ar&sans,
among
whom
there
must
be
some
who,
partly
by
inherited
experience
and
partly
by
their
own
observa&ons,
have
become
highly
expert
and
clever
in
explana&on
».
The
awareness
of
their
scienLfic
knowledge
is
the
best
witness
of
their
real
ignorance.
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G.B.
Maffiolev,
Pianta
dell'Arsenale,
12
maggio
1797
[Museo
storico
navale,
Venezia].

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Nicolaas
Witsen,
Architectura
navalis
et
regimen
nau&cum.
Amsterdam:
Pieter
en
Joan
Blaeu,
1690.
Telesio,
Bernardino.
De
Rerum
Natura
iuxta
propria
principia,
Liber
Primus,
&
Secundus,
denuò
edi&.
Napoli:
Apud
Iosephum
Cacchium,
1570.
A
“paradigm
shiK”
The
history
of
Naval
Science,
certainly
does
not
replace
the
knowledge
of
the
SocraLc
docta
ignoran&a
(learned
ignorance),
but
rather
should
serve
as
a
moment
of
reflecLon
of
the
knowledge
acquired
to
facilitate
the
development
of
new
methods
and
analyLcal
tools
for
design
and
calculus,
and
find
in
this
way
itself
-­‐
juxta
propria
principia
(according
to
its
own
principles)
-­‐
the
reasons
for
its
growth.

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The
history
of
Naval
Science
can
become
connotaLve
matrix
of
a
weaving
warp
and
wet,
a
cloth
of
empirical
intuiLons
and
scienLfic
knowledge,
in
order
to
reveal
the
hidden
reasons
that
pass
through
the
design
of
a
boat,
vessel
or
ship,
its
structural
dimensioning,
its
technologies
and
materials,
to
the
shipyard
that
will
lead
to
its
construcLon.
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Anonyme.
Construc&on
des
Vaisseaux
du
Roy,
et
le
nom
de
toutes
les
pieces
qui
y
entrent,
marquées
en
la
Table
par
numéro
:
avec
toutes
les
propor&ons
des
rangs,
leur
explica&on,
&
l'
exercice
du
Canon.
Au
Havre
de
Grace:
Chez
Jacques
Hubault,
1691.

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History
does
not
ignore
the
fundamental
contribuLon
by
mathemaLcians
and
engineers
engaged
in
research
and
study
of
topics
related
to
the
technical
competences
of
the
naval
architect.
But
as
can
be
seen
from
Mathesis
Universalis
pursued
by
the
greatest
scienLsts
of
the
sixteenth
and
seventeenth
centuries,
the
architecture
and
the
art
of
building
naval
vessels,
belong
to
the
great
mathemaLcians
who
founded
a
discipline,
Naval
Science,
starLng
from
its
roots
and
its
historical
knowledge
passed
down
from
father
to
son,
from
master
to
apprenLce
in
the
shipyards
and
in
the
first
naval
establishments
then,
unLl
the
end
of
the
twenLeth
century.
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One
of
the
first
drawings
of
a
ship.
AYributed
to
MaYhew
Baker,
circa
1580
[Magdalene
College,
Pepys
Library,
Cambridge
(
MS2820),
fo
8].
This
“alphabet
of
human
thoughts”
developed
by
Go{ried
Wilhelm
Leibniz
(1646
–
1716)
his
through
account
of
a
Mathesis
Universalis,
a
universal
system
for
storing
and
generaLng
knowledge.

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The
acknowledgement
of
the
important
role
fulfilled
by
scienLsts
as
one
of
the
builders
in
the
construcLon
of
a
boat,
a
vessel,
a
ship,
it
is
not
a
granted
contribuLon,
and
unfortunately
it
is
not
enough
to
understand
the
inLmate
and
essenLal
process
that
led
the
shipwrights
in
shipbuilding.
It
is
not,
in
fact,
only
a
valuable
contribuLon
to
certainly
firmitas
(“art
of
building”)
of
naval
construcLon,
although
somewhat
collateral,
even
when
extrinsic
design,
but
instead
of
a
moment
of
scienLfic
awareness
of
an
act
of
intuiLve
design
that
brought
to
the
project
by
imitaLon
of
the
ship.
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Detail
of
a
ship
under
construcLon.
View
of
the
Rochefort
shipyard,
used
for
both
ships
and
galleys.
Pen
and
ink
drawing,
brown
and
grey
wash,
watercolour
highlights,
paper
mounted
on
canvas.
[Musée
d’Art
et
d’Histoire,
Rochefort,
dépôt
Bibliothèque
municipale,
Saintes].

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The
relaLonship
between
art
and
science,
between
design
and
construcLon,
becomes
a
means
of
interpretaLon
of
a
design
raLonale
that,
as
shown
in
the
Schopenhauer’s
text
The
World
as
Will
and
Representa&on
[Schopenhauer
1819],
belongs
to
the
world
of
aestheLcs,
as
well
as
the
raLonal
world.
The
structural
aspect
of
the
construcLon
is
anything
but
a
side
aspect
and
extrinsic
act
of
design.
Since
it
is
based
both
the
aestheLc
essence
of
the
work
and
science,
according
to
the
German
philosopher,
it
is
then
the
vehicle
and
message
of
beauty.
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The
structural
mechanics
and
the
definiLon
of
the
laws
of
equilibrium,
which
gathers
into
itself
the
objecLve
of
structural
design,
becomes
interpreLve
paradigm
of
the
new
Naval
Science,
because
it
leads
one
to
suppose
that
the
acLve
and
reacLve
forces,
external
acLons
and
internal
tensions
are
arranged
in
different
parts
of
the
structure
in
such
a
way
that
obey
those
laws.
«But
there’s
more:
during
the
eighteenth
century
undoubtedly
under
the
influence
of
philosophical
and
metaphysical
concep&ons
guided
by
ra&onal
op&mism,
according
to
the
principles
of
a
cosmological
and
anthropological
teleonomy,
emerged
the
belief
that
the
same
laws
“du
repos
et
du
mouvement
des
corps”
were
in
their
turn
subject
to
a
finalis&c
universal
design,
suitable
to
express
the
beauty
and
perfec&on
of
nature
in
the
“best
of
all
possible
worlds”,
track
worthy
of
the
Supreme
Architect»
[Benvenuto,
1988].
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The
Port
of
Amsterdam:
the
docks
of
the
Dutch
East
India
Company.
Joseph
Mulder
(1658
-­‐
post
1718)
[Stadsarchief
Amsterdam].

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The
great
project
of
staLc
and
mechanical
interpretaLon
of
the
laws
in
terms
of
final
causes,
through
the
“method
of
maxima
and
minima”,
fully
developed
with
the
help
of
the
‘VariaLonal
method
and
calculus’
then
gave
clarity
to
the
mathemaLcal
formulaLon
of
the
theme
inherent
balance
and
stability
will
be
the
main
topic
of
Euler’s
Scien&a
navalis.
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1826

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History
of
Naval
Science
is
sLll
a
fronLer
land,
not
very
sLmulaLng
for
the
students
of
the
history
of
science,
and
somewhat
difficult
for
scholars
of
the
history
of
shipbuilding,
but
certainly
criLcal
to
understand
the
paradigm
shit
that
involved
the
world
of
technology,
not
relegated
to
only
the
most
technical
and
design
note
of
the
shipyard,
which
as
we
have
said,
has
for
centuries
based
its
manufacturing
capacity
in
imitaLon,
but
open
to
educaLon
and
to
teaching,
the
definiLon
of
operaLonal
tools
such
as
‘plans
construcLon’,
with
the
birth
of
the
Schools
of
naval
engineering.
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Marine. On entend par ce mot tout ce qui a rapport au service de la mer, soit pour la navigation,
la construction des vaisseaux, & le commerce maritime ; soit par rapport aux corps des officiers
militaires, & ceux employés pour le service des ports, arsenaux & armées navales : ainsi cet
article renvoie à une infinité d’autres qui regardent les différentes parties de la marine.

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Here
the
contribuLon
of
the
engineer-­‐mathemaLcian,
or
mathemaLcian-­‐
engineer,
master
of
his
discipline,
and
therefore
ready
to
penetrate
between
the
old
maps
bristled
with
calculaLons
and
discouraging
geometric
construcLons
has
proved
invaluable.
Exploring
the
science
of
“build
vessels”
of
Galilean
memory,
as
stated
in
his
opening
words
to
Discorsi
[Galileo
1638]
before,
through
and
ater
the
“paradigm
shit”
of
which
we
have
menLoned,
is
no
longer
a
marginal
contribuLon
to
the
history
of
shipbuilding,
as
far
as
the
heart
of
a
crucial
event
that
has
changed
the
face
of
the
“arte
del
fabbricare
navigli”
(“art
of
build
vessels”).
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Plate
I
from
Falconer,
William,
(1732
–
1769).
An
universal
dic&onary
of
the
marine,
or,
A
copious
explana&on
of
the
technical
terms
and
phrases
employed
in
the
construc&on,
equipment,
furniture,
machinery,
movements,
and
military
opera&ons
of
a
ship
:
to
which
is
annexed,
a
transla&on
of
the
French
sea-­‐terms
and
phrases,
collected
from
the
works
of
Mess.
de
Hamel,
Aubin,
Laverien,
&c.
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William
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“A
perfect
intelligence”
Awareness,
as
Aristotle
wrote,
that
“considering
things
in
their
genesis,
you
get
a
perfect
intelligence”
comes
from
deep
reasons
who
invest
the
fundamental
principles
of
the
disciplines
of
interest
the
naval
engineer;
disciplines
ranging
from
mechanics
to
hydrostaLc
and
to
hydrodynamic,
shipbuilding,
science
and
structural
engineering,
mechanics
of
materials,
mechanics
of
solids
and
structures,
etc.
«
...
each
shipbuilding
-­‐
can
be
regarded
as
a
physical
object
completely
describable
and
explicable
by
the
scien&st,
if
-­‐
and
only
if
-­‐
is
known
unequivocally
its
design
configura&on
».
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FurYenbach,
Joseph.
Architectura
navalis.
Ulm:
J.
Saur,
1629.

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The
structural
analysis
belongs
by
right
to
the
riverbed
of
the
Naturwissenschaaen
and
therefore
is
based
on
data
currently
ascertained
experimentally.
It
then
makes
use
of
the
laws
that
govern
the
mechanical
behaviour
of
the
bodies,
and
you
do
not
see
what
role
can
exercise
the
knowledge
of
the
past
history
that
can
govern
the
design
of
the
present
object,
if
not
as
useful,
but
accidental
support.
In
no
way,
this
implies
the
introducLon
of
the
history
of
scienLfic
analysis,
nor
assumes
strange
interweaving
thinking
“nomotheLc”
characterisLc
of
the
natural
sciences
and
the
intenLon
“idiographic”
always
shielded
by
the
veil
of
interpretaLon,
which
concerns
the
historical
sciences
out,
in
the
Geisteswissenschaaen.
More
simply,
it
is
beYer
to
fix
instead
of
the
ini&al
data
which,
together
with
the
boundary
condi&ons,
define
the
physical-­‐
mathemaLcal
problem,
so
as
to
ensure
the
existence
and
uniqueness
of
the
soluLon.
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Dassié,
François.
L’Architecture
Navale:
avec
le
Rou&er
des
Indes
Orientales
&
Occidentales:
Par
le
Sieur
Dassié.
Paris:
Jean
de
la
Caille,
1677.

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Among
the
essenLal
principles
of
scienLfic
disciplines
that
are
a
priori
of
ship
design
is
in
fact
a
convincing
image
“asymptoLc”
of
the
structural
descripLon
and
explanaLon,
according
to
which,
any
answer
offered
by
the
engineer
is
valid
since
he
enrolled
in
the
narrow
path
of
achievements
approximate,
because
that
is
how
you
present
prolepsis
anLcipaLon
of
a
perfect
soluLon
whose
existence
is
ensured
by
the
universal
principle
of
physical
determinism.
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Robert
Benard:
“Marine”,
Encyclopedie
Methodique.
Paris:
Panckoucke,
1787.

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Suppose
the
objecLve
existence
of
a
perfect
soluLon
but
unaYainable
within
a
design
process,
which
can
be
more
“secularly”
define
infinite
laboratory,
able
to
go
from
the
beginning
to
the
end
of
a
route
can
only
descripLve-­‐explanatory
sight
distance
and
wholesale
the
soluLon
searched,
trying
to
make
sense
and
measure
the
results
actually
achieved
by
the
limited
cogniLve
instruments
of
our
knowledge,
interpreLng
them
as
approxima&ons,
more
or
less
accurate,
the
true
solu&on.
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Eggers,
Jakob
von
.
Neues
Kriegs-­‐,
Ingenieur-­‐,
Ar&llerie-­‐,
See-­‐
und
Floeen-­‐Lexikon.
Dresden
und
Leipzig,
G.C.
Walther,
1757.

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Conclusions
The
indefinable
number
of
factors
that
are
put
in
place,
the
insurmountable
difficulty
of
the
experiment,
the
uncertainty
that
remains
in
any
theoreLcal
model
designed
to
represent
the
inherent
non-­‐linearity
of
the
materials,
the
incidence
of
aspects
may
be
captured
only
by
consideraLons
of
probability,
lead
us
to
think
that
not
even
in
principle
be
apparent
via
a
“ontologically”
determined,
ater
which
shines
forth
the
true
goal
of
the
soluLon.
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In
this
sense,
our
case
is
not
much
(or
only)
complicated,
but
rather
complex.
The
first
term
is
appropriate
for
those
intricate
problems
and
perhaps
unaYainable,
but
for
which
you
can
configure,
at
least
in
the
abstract,
solving
paradigms,
while
the
second
term
is
applied
to
those
other
problems
that
defy
any
paradigm.
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24. The
soluLon
thus
remains
contained
in
the
un-­‐decidable
act
of
design,
be
it
aestheLc
and
engineering,
but
the
act
of
design
is
the
history
of
the
Lme
that
has
been
designed
and
built,
and
over
the
years
will
be
slowly
forgoYen.
But
the
soluLons
proposed,
designed
and
implemented
should
not
belong
to
the
world
of
the
past,
but
as
soluLons
to
problems
or
comprehensive
answers
to
the
quesLons
asked
should
be
collected
and
narrated
as
a
key
tool
for
growth
and
development
of
the
knowledge
of
the
discipline.
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Great
Harry,
as
reproduced
in
The
Anthony
Roll
of
Henry
VIII’s
Navy.