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Thinking With Objects - 9780801884269

Un libro in lingua di Meli Domenico Bertoloni edito da Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2006

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The historiography of 17th-century mechanics demonstrates an overwhelming attention to the formulation of laws, such as Isaac Newton's laws of motion and universal gravity. However, according to Bertoloni Meli (director, Indiana U. Center for the History of Medicine), attention to how Newton and others thought about and interacted with material objects from Descartes' slings to Newton's pendulums promises even greater insight into the development of mechanics, especially as concern such neglected areas as Galileo's treatment of parabolas, the treatment of elastic bodies, and the science of fluids. His narrative is broadly chronological, beginning with the rediscovery of classical sources including Archimedes and Pappus by dal Monte, Stevin, Benedetti, the young Galileo, and others and continuing through discussion of the work of Galileo and his disciples and the rise of mechanical philosophy and Descartes. He also offers chapters on the main areas of research in the second half of the century: the science of equilibrium and the motion of waters; the use of projected and oscillating bodies to explain orbital motion; and the emergence of elasticity in the study of collision, the behavior of springs, and the resistance of militaries. Additionally, a chapter on Newton's Principia focusing on the achievements made possible by Newton's mathematical and experimental approach to natural philosophy is presented. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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