Palmerino, Carla Rita (Editor)
Thijssen, J. M. M. H. (Editor)
Kluwer Academic
Physical Details: ix + 275pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English
Description Contents: Alan Gabbey, “What Was `Mechanical' about `the Mechanical Philosophy'?”; Sophie Roux, “Cartesian Mechanics”; William R. Shea, “The `Rational' Descartes and the `Empirical' Galileo”; H. Floris Cohen, “A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo's Conception of Motion”; Jochen Büttner, Peter Damerow, Jürgen Renn, “Galileo's Unpublished Treatises. A Case Study on the Role of Shared Knowledge in the Emergence and Dissemination of an Early Modern `New Science'”; Enroco Giusti, “A Master and His Pupils: Theories of Motion in the Galilean School”; Carla Rita Palmerino, “Galileo's Theories of Free Fall and Projectile Motion as Interpreted by Pierre Gassendi”; Cees Leijenhorst, “Hobbes and the Galilean Law of Free Fall”; Christiane Vilain, “Christiaan Huygens' Galilean Mechanics”; Wallace Hooper, “Seventeenth-Century Theories of the Tides as a Gauge of Scientific Change”; and Michel Blay, “Mathematization of the Science of Motion at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Pierre Varignon”.
Essay Review Jesseph, Douglas (2010) Machines, Mechanism, and the Development of Mechanics: Contemporary Understandings. Perspectives on Science (pp. 98-112).
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