Roy Laird and Sophie Roux Introduction- 1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics - Mark J. Schiefsky Theory and Practice in Heron s Mechanics- Jean Celeyrette Bradwardine s Rule: A Mathematical Law?- Edith Dudley Sylla The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine s De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics- Jürgen Sarnowsky Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics- 2. The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics- Christiane Vilain Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the Sixteenth Century- Walter Roy Laird Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti s Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica- Mario Otto Helbing Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters in the Faculty of Arts- Egidio Festa and Sophie Roux The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo- 3. Mechanics in New Contexts- Jochen Büttner The Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern Period- Victor Navarro-Brontons Mechanics in Spain at the end of the Sixteenth Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics- Gert Vanpaemel Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early Seventeenth Century
EAN/ISBN : 9781402059674
Publisher(s): Springer Netherlands
Format: ePub/PDF

Author(s): Laird, Walter Roy - Roux, Sophie