Mechanics and natural philosophy before the scientific revolution /
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Springer,
2008.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 254. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Ancient and medieval mechanics. Theory and practice in Heron's Mechanics / Mark J. Schiefsky ; Bradwardine's rule : a mathematical law? / Jean Celeyrette ; The origin and fate of Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in relation to the history of mathematics / Edith Dudley Sylla ; Concepts of impetus and the history of mechanics / Jürgen Sarnowsky
- 2. The reappropriation and transformation of ancient mechanics. Circular and rectilinear motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th century / Christiane Vilain ; Nature, mechanics, and voluntary movement in Giuseppe Moletti's Lectures on the pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica / Walter Roy Laird ; Mechanics and natural philosophy in late 16th century Pisa : Cesalpino and Buonamici, humanist masters of the faculty of arts / Mario Otto Helbing ; The enigma of the inclined plane from Heron to Galileo / Egidio Festa and Sophie Roux
- 3. Mechanics in new contexts. The pendulum as a challenging object in early-Modern mechanics / Jochen Büttner ; Mechanics in Spain at the end of the 16th century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics / Victor Navarro Brotons ; Mechanics and mechanical philosophy in some Jesuit mathematical textbooks of the early 17th century / Geert Vanpaemel.