Swinging and Rolling : Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science Hardback
by Jochen Buttner
Part of the Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science series
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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.
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- Pages:472 pages, 195 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 472 p. 195 illus.
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:21/08/2019
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- ISBN:9789402415926
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In Stock - low on stock, only 1 copy remainingFree UK DeliveryEstimated delivery 2-3 working days
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:472 pages, 195 Illustrations, black and white; XV, 472 p. 195 illus.
- Publisher:Springer
- Publication Date:21/08/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9789402415926
