At once poetic and scientific, these essays are a testament to the insatiable human quest for understanding and meaning—making this book an essential read for those intrigued by the interaction of faith, science, and the sublime in the ...

This manual of naval architecture from 1900 includes chapters on the displacement and buoyancy of ships, the tonnage of ships, the statical stability of ships, the oscillation of ships in still water, methods of observing rolling and ...