The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe
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The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe
（Boston studies in the philosophy of science, v. 239）
Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004
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Bibliography: p. 261-270
Includes index
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: hbk ISBN 9781402024542
内容説明
This book has evolved out of a colloquium entitled "The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion;' held at Amsterdam on 5-7 July 2000. It was our intention as the organizers to bring together historians of science interested in Galileo's science of motion, its ramifications in seventeenth-century Europe, and its impact on what Anneliese Maier and E. J. Dijksterhuis have labeled the "mechanization of the world picture. " Funding for the conference was provided by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, which honored our proposal for an Academy Colloquium. We should also like to thank Ap de Wit, Martine Wagenaar, and Ine van den Heuvel from the Royal Academy for the careful and reliable administrative organization of the colloquium. Through a generous grant (no. 200-22-295), the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research ( NWO) allowed the Center for Medieval and Renaissance Natural Philosophy at Nijmegen University to act as the colloquium's second sponsor. All papers that were read at the colloquium have been strongly modified for publication.
It is hoped that the resulting articles display even more coherence and unity than the colloquium did, while at the same time retaining something of its spirit and diversity. In addition to the authors whose articles are published here, the following scholars also participated in the discussions: Constance Blackwell, Hans Bots, Henk Braakhuis, Wiep van Bunge, Dirk-Jan Dekker, Fokko-Jan Dijksterhuis, Juliette van den Elsen, Fran'Tois de Gandt, Christoph Luthy, Olaf Pluta, Thomas Settle, Theo Verbeek, and Liesbeth de Wreede.
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Preface
List of Contributors
Carla Rita Palmerino: Introduction
Alan Gabbey: What Was 'Mechanical' about 'The Mechanical Philosophy'?
Sophie Roux: Cartesian Mechanics
William R. Shea: The 'Rational' Descartes and the 'Empirical' Galileo
H. Floris Cohen: A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo's Conception of Motion
Jochen Buttner, Peter Damerow, Jurgen Renn: Galileo's Unpublished Treatises. A case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern 'new science'
Enrico Giusti: A Master and his Pupils: Theories of Motion in the Galilean School
Carla Rita Palmerino: Galileo's Theories of Free Fall and Projectile Motion as Interpreted by Pierre Gassendi
Cees Leijenhorst: Hobbes and the Galilean Law of Free Fall
Christiane Vilain: Christiaan Huygens' Galilean Mechanics
Wallace Hooper: Seventeenth Century Theories of the Tides as a Gauge of Scientific Change
Michel Blay: Mathematization of the Science of Motion at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Pierre Varignon
Bibliography
Index
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内容説明
This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical, and ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as "the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of motion? Which methods were used, before the invention if the infinitesimal calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of parabolic motion? And what sorts of experiments were invoked in favour or against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume.
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