Thinking With Objects: The Transformation of Mechanics in the Seventeenth Century - Couverture rigide

Bertoloni Meli, Domenico

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0801884268 ISBN 13 : 9780801884269

Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007

Synopsis

Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects--levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies--Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time.

Bertoloni Meli reexamines such major texts as Galileo's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, and Newton's Principia, and in them finds a reliance on objects that has escaped proper understanding. From Pappus of Alexandria to Guidobaldo dal Monte, Bertoloni Meli sees significant developments in the history of mechanical experimentation, all of them crucial for understanding Galileo. Bertoloni Meli uses similarities and tensions between dal Monte and Galileo as a springboard for exploring the revolutionary nature of seventeenth-century mechanics.

Examining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Domenico Bertoloni Meli is a professor of history and philosophy of science at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0801884268
• ISBN 13: 9780801884269
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 408
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