Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature

Yoder, Joella G.

ISBN 10: 052134140X / ISBN 13: 9780521341400

Edité par Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1989

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Hardcover - full black cloth over boards with gold lettering stamped on spine and on blue badge on front. No DJ. Sewn binding. xi + 238 pages, illustrated with numerous equations, graphs, diagrams, and manuscript facsimiles; extensive end notes, bibliography, index. 1st Edition (1988), 2nd Printing (1990). CONDITION: Book FINE, binding square and tight, pages bright and unmarked; appears unread and as new. Binder's glue on interior of boards has lightly tanned the front and back endpapers. CONTENT: "This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629-1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measure the constant of gravitational acceleration, to analyze centrifugal force, and to create the mathematical theory of evolutes. In the second half of the book, Dr Yoder places Huygens's work in the context of his time by examining his relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research. The role of evolutes in the history of mathematics is analyzed; the reception of Huygens's masterpiece, the Horologium Oscillatorium of 1673, is described; and finally, the part that Christian Huygens played in the rise of applied mathematics is addressed." - Publisher. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature
• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK
• Date de parution: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 052134140X
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780521341400
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: No Jacket
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biography & Memoir
  • Mathematics

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This case study examines the interrelationship between mathematics and physics in the work of one of the major figures of the Scientific Revolution: the Dutch mathematician, physicist, and astronomer, Christian Huygens (1629–1695). Joella Yoder details the creative interaction that led Huygens to invent a pendulum clock that theoretically beat absolutely uniform time, to measure the constant of gravitational acceleration, to analyze centrifugal force, and to create the mathematical theory of evolutes. In the second half of the book, Dr Yoder places Huygens's work in the context of his time by examining his relationship with other scientists and the priority disputes that sometimes motivated his research. The role of evolutes in the history of mathematics is analyzed; the reception of Huygens's masterpiece, the Horologium Oscillatorium of 1673, is described; and finally, the part that Christian Huygens played in the rise of applied mathematics is addressed.