{"id":24278,"date":"2024-06-17T10:07:43","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T14:07:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/?p=24278"},"modified":"2024-07-03T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T23:49:05","slug":"w-r-laird-publishes-new-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/2024\/w-r-laird-publishes-new-book\/","title":{"rendered":"W. R. Laird Publishes New Book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        W. R. Laird Publishes New Book\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Professor Emeritus <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/people\/w-roy-laird\/\">W. R. Laird<\/a> has just published <em><a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Flink.springer.com%2Fbook%2F10.1007%2F978-3-031-45505-6&amp;data=05%7C02%7CTanyaSchwartz%40CUNET.CARLETON.CA%7C762e2b1191674317404f08dc8ec175ae%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638542208748484879%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=mdtM8M6%2B75OSjGlKysGkfYXQi1uKVNWO6dHU%2B3JO7Q0%3D&amp;reserved=0\">The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism<\/a><\/em>, Archimedes 68 (Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2024). The two tomes of <em>Francisci Maurolyci Archimedea<\/em>, ed. Riccardo Bell\u00e9, Pier Daniele Napolitani, and Beatrice Sisani, Edizione Nazionale dell\u2019Opera Matematica di Francesco Maurolico, vol. 7 (Pisa, Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2022), for which he provided the English translations of the introductions to the texts, has also recently appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Emeritus W. R. Laird has just published The Renaissance of Mechanics: Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism, Archimedes 68 (Dordrecht: Springer Nature, 2024). The two tomes of Francisci Maurolyci Archimedea, ed. Riccardo Bell\u00e9, Pier Daniele Napolitani, and Beatrice Sisani, Edizione Nazionale dell\u2019Opera Matematica di Francesco Maurolico, vol. 7 (Pisa, Rome: Fabrizio Serra, 2022), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[43,1,105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-history","category-news","category-publications"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24279,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24278\/revisions\/24279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}