Motion and genetic definitions in the sixteenth-century Euclidean tradition / Angela Axworthy.
Pubblicazione:
Cham : Birkhäuser, c2021.
Descrizione fisica:
XV, 300 p. : ill.
Serie:
Frontiers in the history of science, 2662-2564
Contiene:
Indice: 1. Introduction 2. Oronce Fine 3. Jacques Peletier 4. François de Foix-Candale 5. Henry Billingsley 6. John Dee 7. Federico Commandino 8. Christoph Clavius 9. Synthesis: continuities and transformations in the status of geometrical motion and genetic definitions from Fine to Clavius 10. Later developments in the seventeenth century: a Cartesian epilogue. Appendix. References. Index
