The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe / edited by Carla Rita Palmerino and J.M.M.H. Thijssen.
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Dordrecht, The Netherlands ; Boston :
Kluwer Academic Publishers,
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| Series: | Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Carla Rita Palmerino
- What was "mechanical" about "the mechanical philosophy"? / Alan Gabbey
- Cartesian mechanics / Sophie Roux
- The "rational" Descartes and the "empirical" Galileo / William R. Shea
- A historical-analytical framework for the controversies over Galileo's conception of motion / H. Floris Cohen
- Galileo's unpublished treatises : a case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern "new science" / Jochen Buttner, Peter Damerow and Jurgen Renn
- A master and his pupils : theories of motion in the Galilean school / Enrico Giusti
- Galileo's theories of free fall and projectile motion as interpreted by Pierre Gassendi / Carla Rita Palmerino
- Hobbes and the Galilean law of free fall / Cees Leijenhorst
- Christiaan Huygens' Galilean mechanics / Christiane Vilain
- Seventeenth-century theories of the tides as a gauge of scientific change / Wallace Hooper
- Mathematization of the science of motion at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Pierre Varignon / Michel Blay.
