Description
| Product ID: | 9789402415926 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Series: | Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science |
| Title: | Swinging and Rolling |
| Subtitle: | Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science |
| Authors: | Author: Jochen Buttner |
| Page Count: | 472 |
| Subjects: | Philosophy of science, Philosophy of science, History of science, Dynamics and statics, History of science, Dynamics & statics |
| Description: | 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer |
| Publisher Name: | Springer |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-08-21 |