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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Focusing on the evolution of scientific thought, this book explores the shift from Renaissance engineering and philosophy to classical mechanics, emphasizing the role of velocity. It highlights the contributions of figures like Descartes and Galileo, who grappled with essential concepts that laid the groundwork for classical mechanics, often without fully recognizing their significance. The authors argue that this transformation was neither a simple progression nor a sudden upheaval, but rather a complex process of pushing the boundaries of the existing Aristotelian framework.
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Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics, Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Jürgen Renn
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
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- Titel
- Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics
- Untertitel
- A Study of Conceptual Development in Early Modern Science: Free Fall and Compounded Motion in the Work of Descartes, Galileo and Beeckman
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Peter Damerow, Gideon Freudenthal, Peter McLaughlin, Jürgen Renn
- Verlag
- Springer New York
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2011
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 436
- ISBN13
- 9781441919175
- Kategorie
- Mathematik, Naturwissenschaften
- Beschreibung
- Focusing on the evolution of scientific thought, this book explores the shift from Renaissance engineering and philosophy to classical mechanics, emphasizing the role of velocity. It highlights the contributions of figures like Descartes and Galileo, who grappled with essential concepts that laid the groundwork for classical mechanics, often without fully recognizing their significance. The authors argue that this transformation was neither a simple progression nor a sudden upheaval, but rather a complex process of pushing the boundaries of the existing Aristotelian framework.