Acknowledgments
Introduction
Brett D. Steele and Tamera Dorland 1
I The Global Development of Gunpowder Weaponry
1 Facing the New Technology: Gunpowder Defenses in Military Architecture before the Trace Italienne, 1350-1500
Kelly DeVries 27
2 The French Reluctance to Adopt Firearms Technology in the Early Modern Period
Frederic J. Baumgartner 73
3 Gunpowder and the Changing Military Order: The Islamic Gunpowder Empires, ca. 1450-ca. 1650
Barton C. Hacker 87
4 Behind the Turkish War Machine: Gunpowder Technology and War Industry in the Ottoman Empire, 1450-1700
Gábor Ágoston 101
II Naval Innovations: Hardware and Software
5 The Mary Rose: A Tale of Two Centuries
Alexzandra Hildred 137
6 Mathematics and Empire: The Military Impulse and the Scientific Revolution
Lesley B. Cormack 181
7 Harriot and Dee on Exploration and Mathematics: Did Scientific Imagery Make for New Scientific Practice?
Amir Alexander 205
8 Charting the Globe and Tracking the Heavens: Navigation and the Sciences in the Early Modern Era
Michael S. Mahoney 221
III Gunpowder Production: The Refinement of Waste
9 The Art and Mystery of Making Gunpowder": The English Experience in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Brenda J. Buchanan 233
10 Chemistry in the War Machine: Saltpeter Production in Eighteenth-Century Sweden
Thomas Kaiserfeld 275
11 Chemistry in the Arsenal: State Regulation and Scientific Methodology of Gunpowder in Eighteenth-Century England and France
Seymour H. Mauskopf 293
IV Military Engineering and Artillery
12 Eighteenth-Century French Fortification Theory after Vauban: The Case of Montalembert
Janis Langins 333
13 Military "Progress" and Newtonian Science in the Age of Enlightenment
Brett D. Steele 361
About the Authors 391
Index 395