Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science

Distinguished Figures in Mechanism and Machine Science
Author: Marco Ceccarelli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 347
Release: 2014-05-21
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9401789479
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This book is composed of chapters that focus specifically on technological developments by distinguished figures in the history of MMS (Mechanism and Machine Science). Biographies of well-known scientists are also included to describe their efforts and experiences and surveys of their work and achievements and a modern interpretation of their legacy are presented. After the first two volumes, the papers in this third volume again cover a wide range within the field of the History of Mechanical Engineering with specific focus on MMS and will be of interest and motivation to the work (historical or not) of many.

HUMILITY

HUMILITY
Author: Andrew Murray
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 76
Release: 2009
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1618981218
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Pride, or the loss of this humility, is the root of every sin and evil. It was when the now fallen angels began to look upon themselves with self-complacency that they were led to disobedience, and were cast down from the light of heaven into outer darkness. Even so it was, when the serpent breathed the poison of his pride, the desire to be as God, into the hearts of our first parents, that they too fell from their high estate into all the wretchedness in which man is now sunk. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell