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From Archimedean Hydrostatics to Post-Aristotelian Mechanics: Galileo’s Early Manuscripts De motu antiquiora (ca. 1590) (2017)

Salvia, Stefano (Author)

Physics in Perspective
Volume: 19
Issue: 2
Pages: 105-150
Publication date: 2017
Language: English

URI: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00016-017-0202-y

DOI: 10.1007/s00016-017-0202-y

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Physics Manuscripts Momentum; inertia (mechanics) Fluid mechanics Mechanics 16th century Galilei, Galileo

Galileo’s early inquiries on motion and free fall in Pisa (1588–1592) can be regarded as a case study of multiple knowledge transfer at the very basic roots of modern mechanics. The treatise De motu, unpublished until 1890, is an original but unsuccessful attempt to go beyond Aristotelian physics by extending Archimedean hydrostatics to the dynamics of natural motion and reappraising the late-medieval impetus theory to account for violent motion and acceleration. I will discuss in particular why Galileo was forced to abandon his project before moving to Padua and how the manuscripts De motu provided him with a “research agenda” for further theoretical and experimental investigation.

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