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| Autore principale: | Cohen, I. Bernard, 1914-2003.
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| Titolo: | The birth of a new physics : revised and updated / I. Bernard Cohen. |
| Pubblicazione: | New York [etc.] : W.W. Norton & co., c1985. |
| Descrizione fisica: | XIV, 258 p. : ill. ; 21 cm |
| Contiene: | Indice: Preface. 1. The physics of a moving Earth 2. The old physics 3. The Earth and the universe 4. Exploring the dephs of the universe 5. Toward an inertial physics 6. Kepler's celestial music 7. The grand design - a new physics. Supplements: 1. Galileo and the telescope 2. What Galileo saw in the heavens 3. Galileo's experiments on free fall 4. Galileo's experimental foundation of the science of motion 5. Did Galileo ever believe that in uniformly accelerated motion the speed is proportional to the distance? 6. The hypothetico-deductive method 7. Galileo and the medieval science of motion 8. Kepler, Descartes, and Gassendi on inertia 9. Galileo's discovery of the parabolic path 10. A summary of Galileo's major discoveries in the science of motion 11. Newton's debt to Hooke: the analysis of curvilinear orbital motion 12. The inertia of planets and comets 13. Proof that an elliptical planetary orbit follows from the inverse-square law 14. Newton and the apple: Newton's discovery of the v2/r law 15. Newton on gravitational and inertial mass 16. Newton's steps to universal gravity. A guide to further reading. Index |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| ISBN: | 0393300455 |
| Discipline: | Astronomia--Studi di carattere generale. Fisica--Studi di carattere generale. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
| Collocazione: | LS 04803 |
| Nota di esemplare: | Mostra nota di esemplare |
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