The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe [Paperback]

PrefaceList of ContributorsCarla Rita Palmerino: IntroductionAlan Gabbey: What Was 'Mechanical' about 'The Mechanical Philosophy'?Sophie Roux: Cartesian MechanicsWilliam R. Shea: The 'Rational' Descartes and the 'Empirical' GalileoH. Floris Cohen: A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileos Conception of MotionJochen B?ttner, Peter Damerow, J?rgen Renn: Galileos Unpublished Treatises. A case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern 'new science'Enrico Giusti: A Master and his Pupils: Theories of Motion in the Galilean SchoolCarla Rita Palmerino: Galileos Theories of Free Fall and Projectile Motion as Interpreted by Pierre GassendiCees Leijenhorst: Hobbes and the Galilean Law of Free FallChristiane Vilain: Christiaan Huygens Galilean MechanicsWallace Hooper: Seventeenth Century Theories of the Tides as a Gauge of Scientific ChangeMichel Blay: Mathematization of the Science of Motion at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Pierre VarignonBibliographyIndexSpringer Book ArchivesNL