Books+ Search Results
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Author
Title
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe [electronic resource] / edited by Carla Rita Palmerino, J. M. M. H. Thijssen.
ISBN
9781402024559
Published
Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2004.
Physical Description
IX, 287 p. digital.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
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, and ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as "the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of motion? Which methods were used, before the invention of the infinitesimal calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of parabolic motion? And what sort of experiments were invoked in favour or against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume.
Variant and related titles
Springer ebooks.
Other formats
Printed edition:
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 17, 2013
Series
Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 239
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Galileo’s Unpublished Treatises.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.
Subjects
Also listed under
SpringerLink (Online service)
Bookmark As
Citation
