Swinging and Rolling

Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science

Jochen Büttner (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

472 Seiten

2019 | 1st ed. 2019
Springer (Verlag)
978-94-024-1592-6 (ISBN)

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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.

1. Introduction, Novel Insights about accelerated motion: the challenge of pendulums and planes.- 2. Speaking the investigation of naturally accelerated motion: The broken chord approach.- 3. Early experimentation: The Pendulum Plane Experiment.- 4. Prerequisite for, or challenged by the new theory: The 'ex mechanics' proof of the Law of Chords.- 5. Foundational issues before 1604: Fundamental propositions, the mechanical method and problems with the concept of velocity. Conclusion, Appendix.

Erscheinungsdatum	04.12.2018
Reihe/Serie	Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 335
Zusatzinfo	195 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 472 p. 195 illus.
Verlagsort	Dordrecht
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
Schlagworte	Accelerated motion • Broken Chord • Concept of velocity • Galileo • Inclined planes • Law of Chords • Pendulum Plane • The mechanical method
ISBN-10	94-024-1592-0 / 9402415920
ISBN-13	978-94-024-1592-6 / 9789402415926
Zustand	Neuware