The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe /

This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical,...

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Main Author: Palmerino, Carla Rita
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Thijssen, J. M. M. H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
Series:Boston studies in the philosophy of science ; 239.
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505 0 |a Preface. List of Contributors. Introduction -- 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Galileo -- A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo's Conception of Motion -- Galileo's Unpublished Treatises.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 -- Bibliography. Index. 
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