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Book Synopsis Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy written by Stillman Drake and published by Madison : University of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti by : Giuseppe Moleti
Download or read book The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti written by Giuseppe Moleti and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laird sets Moletti's Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.
Book Synopsis Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy written by Stillman Drake and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Mechanics in Sixteenth-century Italy written by Stillman Drake and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Renaissance of Mechanics by : Walter Roy Laird
Download or read book The Renaissance of Mechanics written by Walter Roy Laird and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Galileo by : Peter Machamer
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Galileo written by Peter Machamer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1998-08-13 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not only a hero of the scientific revolution, but after his conflict with the church, a hero of science, Galileo is today rivalled in the popular imagination only by Newton and Einstein. But what did Galileo actually do, and what are the sources of the popular image we have of him? This 1998 collection of specially-commissioned essays is unparalleled in the depth of its coverage of all facets of Galileo's work. A particular feature of the volume is the treatment of Galileo's relationship with the church. It will be of interest to philosophers, historians of science, cultural historians and those in religious studies.
Book Synopsis The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy by : David A. Lines
Download or read book The Dynamics of Learning in Early Modern Italy written by David A. Lines and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2023-02-21 with total page 561 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pathbreaking history of early modern education argues that Europe’s oldest university, often seen as a bastion of traditionalism, was in fact a vibrant site of intellectual innovation and cultural exchange. The University of Bologna was among the premier universities in medieval Europe and an international magnet for students of law. However, a long-standing historiographical tradition holds that Bologna—and Italian university education more broadly—foundered in the early modern period. On this view, Bologna’s curriculum ossified and its prestige crumbled, due at least in part to political and religious pressure from Rome. Meanwhile, new ways of thinking flourished instead in humanist academies, scientific societies, and northern European universities. David Lines offers a powerful counternarrative. While Bologna did decline as a center for the study of law, he argues, the arts and medicine at the university rose to new heights from 1400 to 1750. Archival records show that the curriculum underwent constant revision to incorporate contemporary research and theories, developed by the likes of René Descartes and Isaac Newton. From the humanities to philosophy, astronomy, mathematics, and medicine, teaching became more systematic and less tied to canonical texts and authors. Theology, meanwhile, achieved increasing prominence across the university. Although this religious turn reflected the priorities and values of the Catholic Reformation, it did not halt the creation of new scientific chairs or the discussion of new theories and discoveries. To the contrary, science and theology formed a new alliance at Bologna. The University of Bologna remained a lively hub of cultural exchange in the early modern period, animated by connections not only to local colleges, academies, and libraries, but also to scholars, institutions, and ideas throughout Europe.
Book Synopsis Galileo and the Equations of Motion by : Dino Boccaletti
Download or read book Galileo and the Equations of Motion written by Dino Boccaletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-17 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended as a historical and critical study on the origin of the equations of motion as established in Newton's Principia. The central question that it aims to answer is whether it is indeed correct to ascribe to Galileo the inertia principle and the law of falling bodies. In order to accomplish this task, the study begins by considering theories on the motion of bodies from classical antiquity, and especially those of Aristotle. The theories developed during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance are then reviewed, with careful analysis of the contributions of, for example, the Merton and Parisian Schools and Galileo’s immediate predecessors, Tartaglia and Benedetti. Finally, Galileo’s work is examined in detail, starting from the early writings. Excerpts from individual works are presented, to allow the texts to speak for themselves, and then commented upon. The book provides historical evidence both for Galileo's dependence on his forerunners and for the major breakthroughs that he achieved. It will satisfy the curiosity of all who wish to know when and why certain laws have been credited to Galileo.
Book Synopsis On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics by : K. Rogers
Download or read book On the Metaphysics of Experimental Physics written by K. Rogers and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-04-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative and critical work addresses the question of why scientific realists and positivists consider experimental physics to be a natural and empirical science. Taking insights from contemporary science studies, continental philosophy, and the history of physics, this book describes and analyses the metaphysical presuppositions that underwrite the technological use of experimental apparatus and instruments to explore, model, and understand nature. By revealing this metaphysical foundation, the author questions whether experimental physics is a natural and empirical science at all.
Book Synopsis The New Science and Jesuit Science by : M. Feingold
Download or read book The New Science and Jesuit Science written by M. Feingold and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-03-09 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume makes an important contribution toward a nuanced appreciation of the Jesuits' interaction with "modernity", and a greater recognition of their contribution to the mathematization of natural philosophy and experimental science. The six essays provide a cross-section of the complex Jesuit encounter with the mathematical sciences during the 17th century.
Book Synopsis Science and Society by : A. Rupert Hall
Download or read book Science and Society written by A. Rupert Hall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second selection of articles by Rupert Hall to be published by Variorum. Whereas the first volume focused on Newton and his work, the present one ranges more widely over the interactions between ’pure’ science, ’applied’ science, and craftsmanship, but with an emphasis on the period from the 17th century to the Industrial Revolution. The second and third sections look in particular at the relations between science and warfare, and science and medicine, and the position of the Royal Society forms the focus of several papers. Throughout Professor Hall argues for the need to keep in mind that the distinction between the practical or professional and the intellectual was not then valid in the same way as now; that the problems of the interaction and interdependence between ’knowing’ and ’doing’ are not invariant, but rather historically determined and with defined historical contexts.
Book Synopsis The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665 by : Michael Sean Mahoney
Download or read book The Mathematical Career of Pierre de Fermat, 1601-1665 written by Michael Sean Mahoney and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as one of the greatest mathematical results of the twentieth century, the recent proof of Fermat's Last Theorem by Andrew Wiles brought to public attention the enigmatic problem-solver Pierre de Fermat, who centuries ago stated his famous conjecture in a margin of a book, writing that he did not have enough room to show his "truly marvelous demonstration." Along with formulating this proposition--xn+yn=zn has no rational solution for n > 2--Fermat, an inventor of analytic geometry, also laid the foundations of differential and integral calculus, established, together with Pascal, the conceptual guidelines of the theory of probability, and created modern number theory. In one of the first full-length investigations of Fermat's life and work, Michael Sean Mahoney provides rare insight into the mathematical genius of a hobbyist who never sought to publish his work, yet who ranked with his contemporaries Pascal and Descartes in shaping the course of modern mathematics.
Book Synopsis Galileo and His Sources by : William A. Wallace
Download or read book Galileo and His Sources written by William A. Wallace and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William A. Wallace demonstrates the importance of two early manuscripts of Galileo dismissed by earlier researchers as juvenile exercises. Analyzing all his scientific writings from the late 1580s to 1610 and from 1610 to 1640, this book illuminates both the sources and the evolution of Galileo's thought. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis God's Philosophers by : James Hannam
Download or read book God's Philosophers written by James Hannam and published by Icon Books Ltd. This book was released on 2009-08-07 with total page 551 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Book Synopsis Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science by : Stillman Drake
Download or read book Essays on Galileo and the History and Philosophy of Science written by Stillman Drake and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 3 volume collection includes 80 of the 130 papers published by Drake, most on Galileo but some on medieval and early modern science in general (principally mechanics). An essential supplement to Drake's translations and other books.
Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution by : Wilbur Applebaum
Download or read book Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution written by Wilbur Applebaum and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2003-12-16 with total page 1298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that defined culture in the age when the modern perception of nature, of the universe, and of our place in it is said to have emerged. Covering the historiography of the period, discussions of the Scientific Revolution's impact on its contemporaneous disciplines, and in-depth analyses of the importance of historical context to major developments in the sciences, The Encyclopedia of the Scientific Revolution is an indispensible resource for students and researchers in the history and philosophy of science.
Book Synopsis Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences by : Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Download or read book Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences written by Ivor Grattan-Guinness and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 1788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * Examines the history and philosophy of the mathematical sciences in a cultural context, tracing their evolution from ancient times up to the twentieth century * 176 articles contributed by authors of 18 nationalities * Chronological table of main events in the development of mathematics * Fully integrated index of people, events and topics * Annotated bibliographies of both classic and contemporary sources * Unique coverage of Ancient and non-Western traditions of mathematics