The emergence of the modern science of mechanics in the Renaissance
The conflicts between Aristotelian natural philosophy and mechanics
Science before the Scientific Revolution
The appropriation and transformation of ancient learning in the Renaissance
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
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Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions and within several disciplines and practices, including ancient and medieval natural philosophy, statics, the theory and design of machines, and mathematics.
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The first part of the volume is concerned with ancient mechanics and its transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part with the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and especially with the reception of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica in the Renaissance; and the third and final part, with early-modern mechanics in specific social, national, and institutional contexts.
Roy Laird and Sophie Roux Introduction1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics Mark J. Schiefsky Theory and Practice in Heron´s MechanicsJean 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 MathematicsJürgen Sarnowsky Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics2. The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient MechanicsChristiane Vilain Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the Sixteenth CenturyWalter Roy Laird Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti´s Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian MechanicaMario Otto Helbing Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters in the Faculty of ArtsEgidio Festa and Sophie Roux The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo3. Mechanics in New ContextsJochen Büttner The Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern PeriodVictor Navarro-Brontons Mechanics in Spain at the end of the Sixteenth Century and the Madrid Academy of MathematicsGert Vanpaemel Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early Seventeenth Century
Ancient and Medieval Mechanics.- Theory and Practice in Heron'S Mechanics.- Bradwardine'S Rule: A Mathematical Law?.- The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine'S De Proportionibus Velocitatum in Motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics.- Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics.- The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics.- Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the 16th Century.- Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti'S Lectures on The Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica.- Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Late 16th-Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters of The Faculty of Arts.- The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo.- Mechanics in New Contexts.- The Pendulum as A Challenging Object in Early-Modern Mechanics.- Mechanics in Spain at the End of the 16th Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics.- Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early 17th Century.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Klappentext
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The emergence of the modern science of mechanics in the Renaissance
The conflicts between Aristotelian natural philosophy and mechanics
Science before the Scientific Revolution
The appropriation and transformation of ancient learning in the Renaissance
