Swinging and Rolling
Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science
Authors: Büttner, Jochen
Free Preview- -Offers a completely novel interpretation of the evolution of Galileo’s new science of motion
- -Exposes Galileo’s pivotal attempt to relate swinging and rolling motion
- -Provides a rigorous reexamination of Galileos working notes
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This volume explores the reorganisation of knowledge taking place in the course of Galileo's research process extending over a period of more than thirty years, pursued within a network of exchanges with his contemporaries, and documented by a vast collection of research notes. It has revealed the challenging objects that motivated and shaped Galileo's thinking and closely followed the knowledge reorganization engendered by theses challenges. It has thus turned out, for example, that the problem of reducing the properties of pendulum motion to the laws governing naturally accelerated motion on inclined planes was the mainspring for the formation of Galileo's comprehensive theory of naturally accelerated motion.
- Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-22
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Before Natural Acceleration
Pages 25-60
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A Glimpse at a Challenging Research Agenda: Galileo to Guidobaldo del Monte in 1602
Pages 61-73
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Sparking the Investigation of Naturally Accelerated Motion: The Pendulum Plane Experiment
Pages 75-95
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Squaring the Pendulum’s Arc: Motion Along Broken Chords
Pages 97-143
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Swinging and Rolling
- Book Subtitle
- Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science
- Authors
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- Jochen Büttner
- Series Title
- Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science
- Series Volume
- 335
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature B.V.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-94-024-1594-0
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-94-024-1594-0
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-94-024-1592-6
- Series ISSN
- 0068-0346
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 472
- Number of Illustrations
- 195 b/w illustrations
- Topics
