The Problem of the Motion of Bodies A Historical View of the Development of Classical Mechanics /

• Main Author: Capecchi, Danilo (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 25
• Subjects: Engineering.; Physics.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Mechanical engineering.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Mechanical Engineering.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This book focuses on the way in which the problem of the motion of bodies has been viewed and approached over the course of human history. It is not another traditional history of mechanics but rather aims to enable the reader to fully understand the deeper ideas that inspired men, first in attempti...

Table of Contents:

• The Science of Motion sive Mechanics
• Greek Period and Middle Ages
• Humanism and Renaissance
• Early Modern Studies on Motion
• The Golden Age
• The Motion of Solid Bodies
• Inanimate Bodies Start Moving by Themselves.