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Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics - Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Jürgen Renn

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
Buch | Hardcover
414 Seiten
2004 | 2nd ed. 2004
Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
978-0-387-20573-1 (ISBN)
CHF 209,70 inkl. MwSt
Includes a discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and delves into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. This book also provides material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.
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 0-387-20573-X / 038720573X
ISBN-13 978-0-387-20573-1 / 9780387205731
Zustand Neuware
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