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    Historical Approach and Scale Reconstruction of Two Medieval Mechanisms from “The Book of Secrets”
    with G. Medina-Sánchez, J. Moreno-Buesa, and R. Dorado-Vicente
    Foundations of Science 29 (1): 105-124. 2024.
    Abstract“The Book of Secrets in the Results of Ideas”, usually called “The Book of Secrets” is a codex containing drawings and descriptions of thirty-one artifacts attributed to the engineer Alī Ibn Khalaf al-Murādī, who lived in Andalusia in southern Spain at the beginning of the 11th century. This manuscript is one of the first written testimonies that describe medieval mechanisms with complex precision. The aim of this work is to reconstruct and study from a historical and technological point…Read more
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    Mechanical Wits Used in the America Colonization: Engineering Assessment
    with R. Dorado-Vicente, J. M. Quero-Nieves, and G. Medina-Sánchez
    Foundations of Science 29 (1): 41-58. 2024.
    The first European settlements in the new world faced technical issues with the help of the XVI century scientific advances. Besides briefly exposing the scientific and technological situation, this paper explores, with the help of reverse engineering, two singular mechanical wits representative of the technological advances introduced in America to overcome different problems. Firstly, a pump, based on an alternative movement system through crankshafts and pistons used against the continuous fl…Read more
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    Obstacles to Mathematization in Physics: The Case of the Differential
    with J. Martínez Sáez and J. Martínez Torregrosa
    Science & Education 24 (5-6): 591-613. 2015.
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    La Jurisprudencia
    Arbor 175 (691): 1351-1355. 2003.
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    Economic Development and Environmental Sustainability: New Policy Options (edited book)
    with Michael A. Toman
    Oxford University Press UK. 2006.
    Economic growth as we know it today cannot persist indefinitely if it entails continuous degradation of natural resources and the environment. While in a few countries around the world it appears that environmental degradation has been the result of rapid economic growth, in the vast majority of the developing countries the environment has been equally spoiled despite slow or even negative economic growth. This book provides new insights on the common roots of economic stagnation, poverty and en…Read more