Ship Hydrostatics and Stability 1 Definitions, principal dimensions 1.1 Introduction
Ship Hydrostatics and Stability 1 Definitions, principal dimensions 1.1 Introduction Marine science BZ.Marine science, The subjects treated in this book are the basis of the profession called Naval Architecture. The term Naval Architecture comes from the titles of books pub lished in the seventeenth century. For a long time, the oldest such book we were aware of was Joseph Furttenbach's Architectura Navalis published in Frankfurt in 1629. The bibliographical data of a beautiful reproduction are included in the references listed at the end of this book. Close to 1965 an older Portuguese manuscript was rediscovered in Madrid, in the Library of the Royal Academy of History. The work is due to João Baptista Lavanha and is known as Livro Primeiro da Architectura Naval, that is 'First book on Naval Architecture'. The traditional dating of the manuscript is 1614. The following is a quotation from a translation due to Richard Barker: Architecture consists in building, which is the...