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| Accesso online: | https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/nun-overview.xml |
| Autore principale: | Clericuzio, Antonio, 1958-
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| Titolo: | The mechanical philosophy and the spring of air : new light on Robert Boyle and Robert Hooke / Antonio Clericuzio. |
| Abstract: | A detailed explanation of the elasticity of air is contained in Boyle's A Defence of the Doctrine touching the spring and Weight of the Air (1662). This explanation is based on the innate motion of corpuscles -a view which seems to contradict Boyle's often repeated statement that motion is not inherent to matter. In fact, evidence provided by Huygens' correspondence shows that the explanation of the spring of air to be found in Boyle's work was not formulated by Boyle, but by Hooke, whose name (for the printer's fault) did not appear in Boyle's Defence. Boyle's reluctance to give a single and definitive account of the elasticity of air was not due to his effort to establish the spring as a matter of fact, eschewing any attempt to explain it, as Shapin and Schaffer maintained. The reason of Boyle's position is that what he considered a plausible theory (Hooke's) was grounded on the Epicurean notion of self-moving corpuscles |
| Visionato in: | IMSS |
| In: |  Nuncius A. 13, fasc. 1 (1998), p. 69-75 |
| Discipline: | Meccanica dei fluidi--Persone. |
| Persone: | Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691. Hooke, Robert, 1635-1703. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Secolo XVII. |
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