Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

Name: Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
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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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Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

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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.

Release date NZ

October 9th, 2011

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Audience

Professional & Vocational

Edition

2nd ed. 2004. Softcover reprint of the original 2nd ed. 2004

Illustrations

38 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 414 p. 38 illus.

Pages

414

Series

Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences

Dimensions

156x234x22

ISBN-13

9781441919175

Product ID

10817505

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