Designing experiments & games of chance : the unconventional science of Blaise Pascal / William R. Shea.
Pubblicazione:
Canton : Science history publications, 2003.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 354 p. : ill., ritr. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Introduction. 1. A precocius genius 2. Filling the void: from Galileo to Torricelli 3. Creating emptiness: Pascal's ingenious methods 4. The battle of the void: the Jesuits against Pascal 5. The great experiment on a mountain in France 6. Why pumps work: the treatise on the equilibrium of liquids 7. Submerged in a sea of air: the treatise on the weight of the mass of air 8. Pascal on the advancement of learning in science and religion 9. The use of logic and the role of experiments 10. The marvelous arithmetical triangle 11. Mastering games of chance 12. Putting the arithmetical triangle of work 13. The brilliance and pride of a gambler and a mathematician. Conclusion. Selected bibliography. Index
Note galileane:
Per GAlilei, oltre al capitolo 2 e a citazioni sparse, vedi: Galileo on the vacuum, p.71-73; Virtual displacements and virtual velocities: Galileo and Descartes, p. 137-139; The weight of air and Galileo, p. 156-159;
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