Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

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

  • Book
  • © 2004

Overview

Editors:
  1. Carla Rita Palmerino

    1. Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

  2. J. M. M. H. Thijssen

    1. Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    View editor publications

    You can also search for this editor in PubMed   Google Scholar

Part of the book series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (BSPS, volume 239)

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this book

Log in via an institution
eBook USD 84.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Other ways to access

Licence this eBook for your library

Institutional subscriptions

Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
    Download chapter PDF

  2. Introduction

    • Carla Rita Palmerino
    Pages 1-9

  3. What Was “Mechanical” about “The Mechanical Philosophy”?

    • Alan Gabbey
    Pages 11-23

  4. Cartesian Mechanics

    • Sophie Roux
    Pages 25-66

  5. The “Rational” Descartes and the “Empirical” Galileo

    • William R. Shea
    Pages 67-82

  6. A Historical-Analytical Framework for the Controversies over Galileo’s Conception of Motion

    • H. Floris Cohen
    Pages 83-97

  7. Galileo’s Unpublished Treatises

    • Jochen Büttner, Peter Damerow, Jürgen Renn
    Pages 99-117

  8. A Master and His pupils: Theories of Motion in the Galilean School

    • Enrico Giusti
    Pages 119-135

  9. Galileo’s Theories of Free Fall and Projectile Motion as Interpreted by Pierre Gassendi

    • Carla Rita Palmerino
    Pages 137-164

  10. Hobbes and the Galilean Law of Free Fall

    • Cees Leijenhorst
    Pages 165-184

  11. Christiaan Huygens’ Galilean Mechanics

    • Christiane Vilain
    Pages 185-198

  12. Seventeenth-Century Theories of the Tides as a Gauge of Scientific Change

    • Wallace Hooper
    Pages 199-242

  13. Mathematization of the Science of Motion at the Turn of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries: Pierre Varignon

    • Michel Blay
    Pages 243-259

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 261-287
    Download chapter PDF
Back to top

Keywords

Editors and Affiliations

  • Radboud University of Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Carla Rita Palmerino, J. M. M. H. Thijssen

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe

  • Editors: Carla Rita Palmerino, J. M. M. H. Thijssen

  • Series Title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2455-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2004

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-2454-2Published: 31 August 2004

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6658-9Published: 15 December 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-2455-9Published: 20 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0068-0346

  • Series E-ISSN: 2214-7942

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 288

  • Topics: History, general, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Back to top

Search

Navigation