Editors:
- 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
Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 254)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Ancient and Medieval Mechanics
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Front Matter
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The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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.
Editors and Affiliations
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Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada
Walter Roy Laird
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Université Grenoble II, Institut universitaire de France, France
Sophie Roux
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Editors: Walter Roy Laird, Sophie Roux
Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5967-4
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2008
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-5966-7Published: 24 January 2008
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-7491-1Published: 30 November 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-5967-4Published: 01 January 2008
Series ISSN: 0068-0346
Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 320
Topics: Philosophy of Science, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, History of Mathematical Sciences, Medieval Philosophy, Classical Philosophy