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

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Büttner, Jochen (Συγγραφέας, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 335
• Θέματα: 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...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction, Novel Insights about accelerated motion: the challenge of pendulums and planes
• 2. Speaking the investigation of naturally accelerated motion: The broken chord approach
• 3. Early experimentation: The Pendulum Plane Experiment
• 4. Prerequisite for, or challenged by the new theory: The 'ex mechanics' proof of the Law of Chords
• 5. Foundational issues before 1604: Fundamental propositions, the mechanical method and problems with the concept of velocity. Conclusion, Appendix.