04308nam 2200505 450 991081955790332120230422033305.01-4426-5867-31-4426-2094-310.3138/9781442620940(CKB)3710000000329580(MiAaPQ)EBC4670098(DE-B1597)479131(OCoLC)979633887(DE-B1597)9781442620940(Au-PeEL)EBL4670098(CaPaEBR)ebr11256612(OCoLC)958512381(EXLCZ)99371000000032958020160922h20002000 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierThe unfinished mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti an edition and English translation of his Dialogue on mechanics (1576) /W. R. LairdToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2000.©20001 online resource (235 pages) illustrationsHeritage1-4426-5774-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- Preface -- Introduction -- The Dialogue on Mechanics -- Sigla -- The First Day: The Subject and Principles of Mechanics -- The Second Day: The Principles of Motion -- Notes to The Edition -- Appendix: The Holograph Fragment on the Subject of Mathematics -- Notes to The Appendix -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- IndexMechanics has long been recognized as the pivotal science in the decline of Aristotelian natural philosophy and the rise of the new, mathematical physics of the Scientific Revolution. Less well known, however, is the earlier transformation of mechanics from a practical art into a theoretical and mathematical science. This transformation was occasioned by the recovery of the pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanical Problems and its assimilation in the course of the sixteenth century to the Aristotelian model of the subalternate or middle sciences, which deal with natural subject matter but draw their principles from geometry or arithmetic.In his Dialogue on Mechanics, Giuseppe Moletti made the most explicit and thoroughgoing attempt to determine the geometrical principles of Aristotelian mechanics, to establish its Euclidean foundations, and so to realize in fact the subalternation of mechanics to geometry. Having done this in the First Day, he then set out in the Second to extend mechanics generally to explain all motions through the analysis of their forces and resistances. In the process he anticipated Galileo in asserting that all heavy bodies, whatever their weights, fall with equal speeds, and he realized that the same resistance that makes a body hard to move also makes it hard to stop - which is almost the law of inertia.Written in dialogue form in Italian (rather than in Latin) for a courtly and practical audience, the Dialogue was left unfinished when Moletti quit the Gonzaga court at Mantua to take up the mathematics chair at the University of Padua. Never before published except for brief extracts, the full Italian text is edited from the manuscripts and printed here for the first time, together with a facing-page English translation. The extensive notes that accompany the text cite and "e from a number of Moletti's other, mostly unpublished, works and his numerous sources. In his introduction, W.R. Laird sets the Dialogue within the historical background of medieval and Renaissance mechanics, sketches the life and works of Moletti, and analyses the arguments and the geometrical theorems of the Dialogue.The Unfinished Mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti offers an unprecedented look at the transformation of Aristotelian mechanics into a mathematical science in the generation before Galileo.Mechanics, AnalyticEarly works to 1800Mechanics, Analytic531Laird Walter Roy1950-1687869MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819557903321The unfinished mechanics of Giuseppe Moletti4061670UNINA03579nam 22006373 450 991058570140332120260204212847.01-003-72134-6963-386-576-X10.1515/9789633865767(MiAaPQ)EBC6978221(Au-PeEL)EBL6978221(CKB)24279822200041(DE-B1597)633573(DE-B1597)9789633865767(OCoLC)1323328215(MdBmJHUP)musev2_100050(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90648(ScCtBLL)884c0bc0-6418-4120-b714-97c785907e46(oapen)doab90648(ODN)ODN0010106264(ScCtBLL)20b4c913-cc97-4167-abac-263402dd30b7(EXLCZ)992427982220004120220727d2022 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPolicemen of the Tsar Local Police in an Age of Upheaval1st ed.Central European University Press2022Budapest :Central European University Press,2022.©2022.1 online resource (235 pages)Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and Eurasia963-386-575-1 The local police at mid-century -- The rural police -- Metropolitan and municipal police -- From stalemate to forced resolution -- A police balance sheet -- Consequences and implications."Founded by Peter the Great in 1718, Russia's police were key instruments of tsarist power. In the reign of Alexander II (1855-1881), local police forces took on new importance. The liberation of 23 million serfs from landlord control, growing fear of crime, and the terrorist violence of the closing years challenged law enforcement with new tasks that made worse what was already a staggering burden. ("I am obliged to inform Your Imperial Highness that the police often fail to carry out their assignments and, when they do execute them, they do so poorly because of their moral corruption...") This book describes the regime's decades-long struggle to reform and strengthen the police. The author reviews the local police's role and performance in the mid-nineteenth century and the implications of the largely unsuccessful effort to transform them. From a longer-term perspective, the study considers how the police's systemic weaknesses undermined tsarist rule, impeded a range of liberalizing reforms, perpetuated reliance on the military to maintain law and order, and gave rise to vigilante justice. While its primary focus is on European Russia, the analysis also covers much of the imperial periphery, discussing the police systems in the Baltic Provinces, Congress Poland, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and Siberia"--Provided by publisher.Historical Studies in Eastern Europe and EurasiaPoliceRussiaHistory19th centuryHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet UnionbisacshRussiafastRussiaHistory1801-1917PoliceHistoryHISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.363.2094709/034HIS032000bisacshAbbott Robert J(Robert James),1945-1890532MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910585701403321Policemen of the Tsar4532464UNINA