Format:
1 online resource (404 pages)
ISBN:
9780801889448
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond Inertia: From Laws to Objects -- 2. Motion and Mechanics -- 3. The Role of Mathematics -- 4. Experience and Experiment -- 5. Practitioners, Sites, and Forms of Communication -- 6. Structure and Organization of the Present Work -- 1 Machines in the Field, in the Book, and in the Study -- 1.1 Between Classical Theory and Engineering Practice -- 1.2 Machines, Equilibrium, and Motion -- 1.3 The Balance of dal Monte and the Problem of Rigor -- 1.4 Pulleys and the Contingency of Matter -- 1.5 Rival Traditions on the Inclined Plane -- 2 Floating Bodies and a Mathematical Science of Motion -- 2.1 Some Features of Archimedes' Floating Bodies -- 2.2 Reading Floating Bodies -- 2.3 Benedetti against the Philosophers -- 2.4 Galileo's Early Speculations -- 2.5 Mazzoni, Stevin, and Galileo -- 3 The Formulation of New Mathematical Sciences -- 3.1 The Broadening of the Mechanical Tradition -- 3.2 Galileo at Padua and the Science of Motion -- 3.3 From Buoyancy to the Science of Waters -- 3.4 Motion between Heaven and Earth -- 3.5 The Science of the Resistance of Materials -- 3.6 The Science of Motion -- 4 Novel Reflections and Quantitative Experiments -- 4.1 Different Readings of Galileo -- 4.2 Mersenne's Harmonie and the Dialogo -- 4.3 Rethinking Galileo's Axiomatic Structure -- 4.4 Continuity and the Law of Fall -- 4.5 Trials with Projectiles, Pierced Cisterns, and Beams -- 4.6 The Experiments and Tables of Riccioli -- 5 The Motion and Collision of Particles -- 5.1 The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy -- 5.2 Mechanics and the Mechanical Philosophy -- 5.3 Beeckman, Galileo, and Descartes -- 5.4 Motion and Its Laws -- 5.5 From the Balance to Impact: Beeckman, Marci, and Descartes -- 5.6 The Workings of the Cartesian Universe -- Intermezzo. Generational and Institutional Changes.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801884276
Additional Edition:
Print version Thinking with Objects : The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Bertoloni Meli, Domenico Thinking with objects Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006 ISBN 0801884268
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0801884276
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780801884276
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Mechanik
;
Bewegung
;
Physik
;
Geschichte 1600-1700
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Author information:
Bertoloni Meli, Domenico
