Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science (1st ed. 2019) (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science #335)
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- Synopsis
- 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.
- Copyright:
- 2019
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789402415940
- Related ISBNs:
- 9789402415926
- Publisher:
- Springer Netherlands
- Date of Addition:
- 09/29/19
- Copyrighted By:
- Springer
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Science, Philosophy
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.