The english Galileo: Thomas Harriot's work on motion as an example of preclassical mechanics

The short series The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics presents the long-term development of mechanical knowledge. The books in this series combine the presentation of a broad selection of relevant sources with in-depth analyses of the long-term development of mechanical knowledge focusing on the early modern period. This series is conceived in analogy to the four-volume series on The Genesis of General Relativity (BSPS 250). The English Galileo, the first book in this series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the work of Thomas Harriot on motion, documented by a wealth of manuscripts, to that of Galileo and other contemporaries. Harriot and Galileo indeed exploited the same shared knowledge resources in order to approach the same challenging objects. First book in small unique series on The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics Has received two distinguished awards, the Junior Scholar Award of the Georg Agricola Society and the Georg Uschmann Award of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-5498-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Desconocida
• Páginas: 735
• Fecha Publicación: 01/10/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 2
• Idioma: Inglés