1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910481156703321

Autore

Anon

Titolo

Encyclopaedia ad Aram Pythiam Publilii Optatiani Porphyrii. Fortunius Licetus genuensis in patauino lyceo physiologus ordinarius . [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padua, : [s.n.], 1630

Descrizione fisica

Online resource ([16], 68, [12] p., 4o)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Latino

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Reproduction of original in Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910349553703321

Autore

Büttner Jochen

Titolo

Swinging and Rolling : Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science / / by Jochen Büttner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht : , : Springer Netherlands : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

94-024-1594-7

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (480 pages)

Collana

Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, , 0068-0346 ; ; 335

Disciplina

531

Soggetti

Science - Philosophy

Science - History

Physics

Philosophical and Historical Foundations of Science

History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction, Novel Insights about accelerated motion: the challenge



of pendulums and planes -- 2. Speaking the investigation of naturally accelerated motion: The broken chord approach -- 3. Early experimentation: The Pendulum Plane Experiment -- 4. Prerequisite for, or challenged by the new theory: The 'ex mechanics' proof of the Law of Chords -- 5. Foundational issues before 1604: Fundamental propositions, the mechanical method and problems with the concept of velocity. Conclusion, Appendix.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume explores the reorginisation 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.