The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Carla Rita Palmerino, J.M.M.H. Thijssen.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9781402024559
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2004.
Yayın Bilgisi
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Fiziksel Niteleme
X, 288 p. online resource.
Dizi
Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 2214-7942 ; 239
İçindekiler Notu
What Was “Mechanical” about “The Mechanical Philosophy”? -- Cartesian Mechanics -- The “Rational” Descartes and the “Empirical” Galileo -- A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo’s Conception of Motion -- Galileo’s Unpublished Treatises. A case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern “new science” -- A Master and his Pupils: Theories of Motion in the Galilean School -- Galileo’s Theories of Free Fall and Projectile Motion as Interpreted by Pierre Gassendi -- Hobbes and the Galilean Law of Free Fall -- Christiaan Huygens’ Galilean Mechanics -- Seventeenth-Century Theories of the Tides as a Gauge of Scientific Change -- Mathematization of the Science of Motion at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Pierre Varignon.
Konu
History.
Physics __ Philosophy.
History.
Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy.