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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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2004.
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
239. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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- Galileo's Unpublished Treatises.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.