Overview
- First translation into English of a major work by Giovanni Borelli
- Of interest to historians of science generally, but especially to those interested in the history of the life sciences
- First translation of Borelli's "De Motu animalium", the founding work of seventeenth-century biomechanics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 38)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Attraction nor attractive force in nature
- Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
- Movements of heavy bodies
- Mutual binding of floating corpuscles
- Natural Motions Resulting From Gravity
- Natural velocity of heavy bodies
- Nature and cause of fluidity
- Positive lightness in the nature of things
- Small particles of water above the surface of the water
- Spontaneous elevation of small particles of water
- Structure, gravity, equilibrium and the elastic force of air
- Sublunary bodies in a fluid environment
- The necessity of vacuum
- Watery bodies frozen increase in volume with an enormous force
About this book
This volume provides an introduction to Borelli’s theory on the movement of animals and describes his theory and scientific experiments relating to the natural movements of bodies in a fluid environment. It describes in great detail why and how bodies which present with different magnitudes, weights and shapes move at a greater or a smaller velocity in certain proportion in the fluid environment.
Originally published in Italian in 1667, then translated into Latin in 1686, the text of this volume has now been translated into English, making the text accessible to a wide readership.
This volume is the second of two volumes that contain the Introduction and physical-mathematical illustrations necessary to understand Giovanni Alfonso Borelli’s work On the Movement of Animals, the founding text of seventeenth century biomechanics. The first volume, entitled On the Force of Percussion, demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
Authors: Giovanni Alfonso Borelli
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08536-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08535-7Published: 03 November 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-36216-8Published: 10 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08536-4Published: 17 October 2014
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 292
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Science, History of Medicine