Galileo and the Equations of Motion

• Main Author: Boccaletti, Dino (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Physics.; History.; Mathematical physics.; Mechanics.; Observations, Astronomical.; Astronomy > Observations.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Astronomy, Observations and Techniques.; History of Science.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

This book is intended as a historical and critical study on the origin of the equations of motion as established in Newton's Principia. The central question that it aims to answer is whether it is indeed correct to ascribe to Galileo the inertia principle and the law of falling bodies. In order...

Table of Contents:

• Part I The Theories on the Motion of Bodies in the Classical Antiquity
• Kinematics among the Greeks
• Dynamics in the Opinion of Aristotle and his Continuators
• The Theories of Motion in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance
• The first substantial Criticisms to Aristotelian Mechanics – Philoponus and Avempace
• The medieval Kinematics
• Part II A brief Chronology of Galileo’s Life
• The young Galileo and the De Motu
• The Inertia Principle.-The Law of Fall and the Motion of Projectiles
• The Principle of Relativity.