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
Author:   Peter Damerow ,  Gideon Freudenthal ,  Peter McLaughlin ,  Jürgen Renn
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2nd ed. 2004. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004
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9781441919175


Pages:   414
Publication Date:   09 October 2011
Format:   Paperback
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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


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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.

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Author:   Peter Damerow ,  Gideon Freudenthal ,  Peter McLaughlin ,  Jürgen Renn
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   2nd ed. 2004. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.664kg
ISBN:  

9781441919175


ISBN 10:   1441919171
Pages:   414
Publication Date:   09 October 2011
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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.

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