The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
[2004]
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 239. |
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Table of Contents:
- What was "mechanical" about "the mechanical philosophy"? / Alan Gabbey
- Cartesian mechanics / Sophie Roux
- The "rational" Descartes and the "empirical" Galileo / William R. Shea
- A historical-analytical framework for the controversies over Galileo's conception of motion / H. Florias Cohen
- Galileo's unpublished treatises. A case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern "new science" / Jochen Bü̈̈ttner, Peter Damerow , Jü̈̈rgen Renn
- A master and his pupils: theories of motion in the Galilean School / Enroco Giusti
- Galileo's theories of free fall and projectile motion as interpreted by Pierre Gassendi / Carla Riat Palmerino
- Hobbes and the Galilean law of free fall / Cees Leijenhorst
- Christiaan Huygens' Galilean mechanics / Christiane Vilain
- Seventeenth-century theories of the tides as a gauge of scientific change / Wallace Hooper
- Mathematization of the science of motion at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Pierre Varignon / Michel Blay.