The Kinematics Book Collection
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The software used to catalog the book collection has been changed to Tellico.
This software offers excellent capabilities of exporting data in a different types of formats.
I am creating a brand new database with the new software.
The purpose of this collection
Engineering sciences had an impressive influence in the progress of human mankind. I strongly believe that it is
important to maintain a record of the books used for the instruction of engineering principles. Through these books
the progress flow in these sciences can be monitored and better understood. Therefore, besides my own fun, one of the
purposes of this collection is to keep a record of the progress of the Science of Mechanisms and of its
recent teaching in technical and engineering schools.
Are the items of this collection available to general public?
I believe that this is a most natural question for a person scanning the list
of titles contained in this collection.
This is a private collection that does not receive any
support from public funds. In the future
I am planning to loan some items upon request.
How was this collection started
Reading books has been always a passion for me. However, the love for Kinematics started
by studying
the geometrical proofs contained in the papers of Prof. C.H. Chiang of National Taiwan University, while working
at my laurea thesis (1979). Those papers
have been assigned as reading material by my thesis adviser Prof. Augusto Di Benedetto of University of Roma "La Sapienza".
At that time Prof. Adalberto Vinciguerra strongly encouraged and motivated myself to build my own library. He donated the
first two items.
People that contributed with donations
List of donors