Thinking with objects : the transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century / Domenico Bartoloni Meli.
Pubblicazione:
Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins university press, c2006.
Descrizione fisica:
XII, 389 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Machines in the field, in the book and in the study 2. Floating bodies and a mathematical science of motion 3. The formulation of new mathematical sciences 4. Novel reflections and quantitative experiments 5. The motion and collision of particles. Intermezzo: Generational and institutional changes. 6. The equilibrium and motion of liquids 7. Projected, oscillating and orbiting bodies 8. Colliding bodies, springs and beams 9. A new world-system 10. Causes, conservation and the new mathematics. Conclusion: Mapping the transformations of mechanics. Notes. References. Index
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