One Hundred Years of Pressure Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Chalmers, Alan F. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Σειρά: Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 51
• Θέματα: Physics.; Epistemology.; Philosophy and science.; Mathematics.; History.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Philosophy of Science.; Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science.

This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth ce...