Swinging and Rolling Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science /

• Main Author: Büttner, Jochen (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 335
• Subjects: Science-Philosophy.; Science-History.; Physics.; Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

This volume explores the reorginisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed...