Absolute or relative motion? : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories. Vol. 1, The discovery of dynamics / Julian B. Barbour.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge : Cambridge university press, 1989.
Contiene:
Indice: Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction to volume 1 and 2. 1. Preliminaries 2. Aristotle : first airing of the absolute / relative problem 3. Hellenistic astronomy : the foundations are laid 4. The Middle Ages : first stirrings of the scientific revolution 5. Copernicus : the flimsy arch 6. Kepler : the dominion of sun 7. Galileo : the geometrization of motion 8. Descartes and the new world 9. Huygens : relativity and centrifugal force 10. Newton I : the discovery of dynamics 11. Newton II : absolute or relative motion? 12. Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics
