Beschreibung
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Roy Laird and Sophie RouxIntroduction 1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics Mark J. SchiefskyTheory and Practice in Heron¿s Mechanics Jean CeleyretteBradwardine¿s Rule: A Mathematical Law? Edith Dudley SyllaThe Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine¿s De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics Jürgen SarnowskyConcepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics 2. The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics Christiane VilainCircular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the Sixteenth Century Walter Roy LairdNature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti¿s Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica Mario Otto HelbingMechanics and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters in the Faculty of Arts Egidio Festa and Sophie RouxThe Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo 3. Mechanics in New Contexts Jochen BüttnerThe Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern Period Victor Navarro-BrontonsMechanics in Spain at the end of the Sixteenth Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics Gert VanpaemelMechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early Seventeenth Century
