LEADER 05481nam 22006134a 450 001 9910825986403321 005 20240416173639.0 010 $a0-8018-8944-8 035 $a(CKB)1000000000482244 035 $a(OCoLC)213305603 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10188525 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000258727 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11218458 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000258727 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10256586 035 $a(PQKB)11777134 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3318324 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse2570 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3318324 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10188525 035 $a(OCoLC)923193389 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000482244 100 $a20060203d2006 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aThinking with objects $ethe transformation of mechanics in the seventeenth century /$fDomenico Bertoloni Meli 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aBaltimore $cThe Johns Hopkins University Press$dc2006 215 $a1 online resource (404 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8018-8427-6 311 $a0-8018-8426-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [355]-377) and index. 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Beyond Inertia: From Laws to Objects -- 2. Motion and Mechanics -- 3. The Role of Mathematics -- 4. Experience and Experiment -- 5. Practitioners, Sites, and Forms of Communication -- 6. Structure and Organization of the Present Work -- 1 Machines in the Field, in the Book, and in the Study -- 1.1 Between Classical Theory and Engineering Practice -- 1.2 Machines, Equilibrium, and Motion -- 1.3 The Balance of dal Monte and the Problem of Rigor -- 1.4 Pulleys and the Contingency of Matter -- 1.5 Rival Traditions on the Inclined Plane -- 2 Floating Bodies and a Mathematical Science of Motion -- 2.1 Some Features of Archimedes' Floating Bodies -- 2.2 Reading Floating Bodies -- 2.3 Benedetti against the Philosophers -- 2.4 Galileo's Early Speculations -- 2.5 Mazzoni, Stevin, and Galileo -- 3 The Formulation of New Mathematical Sciences -- 3.1 The Broadening of the Mechanical Tradition -- 3.2 Galileo at Padua and the Science of Motion -- 3.3 From Buoyancy to the Science of Waters -- 3.4 Motion between Heaven and Earth -- 3.5 The Science of the Resistance of Materials -- 3.6 The Science of Motion -- 4 Novel Reflections and Quantitative Experiments -- 4.1 Different Readings of Galileo -- 4.2 Mersenne's Harmonie and the Dialogo -- 4.3 Rethinking Galileo's Axiomatic Structure -- 4.4 Continuity and the Law of Fall -- 4.5 Trials with Projectiles, Pierced Cisterns, and Beams -- 4.6 The Experiments and Tables of Riccioli -- 5 The Motion and Collision of Particles -- 5.1 The Rise of the Mechanical Philosophy -- 5.2 Mechanics and the Mechanical Philosophy -- 5.3 Beeckman, Galileo, and Descartes -- 5.4 Motion and Its Laws -- 5.5 From the Balance to Impact: Beeckman, Marci, and Descartes -- 5.6 The Workings of the Cartesian Universe -- Intermezzo. Generational and Institutional Changes. 327 $a6 The Equilibrium and Motion of Liquids -- 6.1 A Characterization of a Research Tradition -- 6.2 Studies around the Time of the Cimento Academy -- 6.3 Pressure and Equilibrium in Pascal and Boyle -- 6.4 Studying the Motion of Waters North of the Alps -- 6.5 Guglielmini and the Bologna Scene -- 6.6 Experiments Combining Pressure and Speed -- 7 Projected, Oscillating, and Orbiting Bodies -- 7.1 The Tools of Investigation -- 7.2 The Analyses of Orbital Motion by Fabri and Borelli -- 7.3 Falling Bodies on a Moving Earth -- 7.4 Projectiles and Air Resistance -- 7.5 Huygens's Pendulum -- 7.6 English Approaches to Orbital Motion -- 8 Colliding Bodies, Springs, and Beams -- 8.1 The Emergence of Elasticity -- 8.2 Boyle and Elasticity -- 8.3 The Transformation of the Impact Rules -- 8.4 Springs between Technology and Cosmology -- 8.5 Bending and Breaking Beams -- 9 A New World-System -- 9.1 Teamwork and Anti-Cartesianism -- 9.2 Halley, Wren, Hooke, and Newton -- 9.3 The Principia's Structure and Conceptual Framework -- 9.4 The Role of Experiments -- 9.5 The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy -- 9.6 A New World-System: Newton and Flamsteed -- 10 Causes, Conservation, and the New Mathematics -- 10.1 Mechanics at the Turn of the Century -- 10.2 The New Analysis -- 10.3 Conservation -- 10.4 Early Responses to Newton's Principia -- 10.5 The New Analysis and Newton's Principia -- Conclusion. Mapping the Transformations of Mechanics -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z. 330 $aExamining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment. 606 $aMechanics$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aMotion$xHistory$y17th century 606 $aPhysics$xHistory$y17th century 615 0$aMechanics$xHistory 615 0$aMotion$xHistory 615 0$aPhysics$xHistory 676 $a531.09/032 700 $aBertoloni Meli$b Domenico$053700 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825986403321 996 $aThinking with objects$93983894 997 $aUNINA