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Meanest foundations and nobler superstructures : Hooke, Newton and the "compounding of the celestiall motions of the planetts" /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gal, Ofer
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, [2002]
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; v. 229.
Subjects:
Hooke, Robert, > 1635-1703.
Newton, Isaac, > 1642-1727.
Hooke, Robert, > 1635-1703 > Influence.
Hooke, Robert.
Newton, Isaac.
Celestial mechanics.
Hemelmechanica.
Receptie.
Himmelsmechanik.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • The Historical Question
  • Gallileo's Challenge
  • The Correspondence
  • Hooke's Programme
  • The Historiographic Difficulty
  • Hooke vs. Newton
  • The Genius vs. The Mechanic
  • Inflection
  • Introduction: The Bad Ending
  • The Novelty
  • Hooke's Programme
  • Setting the Question Right
  • Employing Inflection
  • Inflection
  • Application as Manipulation
  • Producing Inflection in the Workshop
  • Construction
  • Implementation
  • Tentative Conclusion
  • 1st Interlude: Practice
  • Introduction--Methodological Lessons
  • Hacking
  • The Realism Snare
  • Power
  • De Potentia Restitutiva, or: Of Spring
  • Horology
  • The Spring Watch
  • Springs and Forces
  • The Origins of the Vibration Theory
  • Of Spring again
  • Springs as a Topos
  • A Clockwork Theory of Matter and Power
  • 2nd Interlude: Representation
  • Rorty
  • 'Knowledge Of' and 'Knowledge That'
  • Hacking and Rorty
  • Newton's Synthesis
  • Newton Before and After
  • Hooke's Programme Revisited
  • Chapter 1: Inflection
  • 1st Interlude: Practice
  • Chapter 2: Clocks, Pendulums and Springs
  • 2nd Interlude: Representation
  • Chapter 3: Newton's Synthesis.