Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman

Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Jürgen Renn (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

414 Seiten

2011 | 2nd ed. 2004. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-1-4419-1917-5 (ISBN)

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The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.

1: Concept and Inference: Descartes and Beeckman on the Fall of Bodies.- 2: Conservation and Contrariety: The Logical Foundations of Cartesian Physics.- 3: Proofs and Paradoxes: Free Fall and Projectile Motion in Galileo’s Physics.- 4. Epilogue.- 5. Documents.- Index locorum.

Reihe/Serie	Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
Zusatzinfo	38 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 414 p. 38 illus.
Verlagsort	New York, NY
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
ISBN-10	1-4419-1917-1 / 1441919171
ISBN-13	978-1-4419-1917-5 / 9781441919175
Zustand	Neuware