E-Book, Englisch, Band 239, 288 Seiten, eBook
E-Book, Englisch, Band 239, 288 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 978-1-4020-2455-9
Verlag: Springer Netherland
Format: PDF
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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Galileo.- A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo’s Conception of Motion.- Galileo’s Unpublished Treatises.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.