Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions and within several disciplines and practices, in...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
2008, 2008
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2008 |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Ancient and Medieval Mechanics
- Theory and Practice in Heron’S Mechanics
- Bradwardine’S Rule: A Mathematical Law?
- The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine’S De Proportionibus Velocitatum in Motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics
- Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics
- The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics
- Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century
- Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti’S Lectures on The Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica
- Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Late 16th-Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters of The Faculty of Arts
- The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo
- Mechanics in New Contexts
- The Pendulum as A Challenging Object in Early-Modern Mechanics
- Mechanics in Spain at the End of the 16th Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics
- Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early 17th Century