[Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science] Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution Volume 254 || The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo

✍ Scribed by Laird, Walter Roy; Roux, Sophie

• Book ID: 118204498
• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 332 KB
• Edition: 2008
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 1402059671
• DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-5967-4_8

✦ Synopsis

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.