The reception of the Galilean science of motion in seventeenth-century Europe /
Palmerino, Carla Rita.
Thijssen, J. M. M. H.
Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c2004.
What was "mechanical" about "the mechanical philosophy"? / Alan Gabbey -- Cartesian mechanics / Sophie Roux -- The "rational" Descartes and the "empirical" Galileo / William R. Shea -- A historical-analytical framework for the controversies over Galileo's conception of motion / H. Florias Cohen -- Galileo's unpublished treatises. A case study on the role of shared knowledge in the emergence and dissemination of an early modern "new science" / Jochen Bü̈̈ttner, Peter Damerow, Jü̈̈rgen Renn -- A master and his pupils: theories of motion in the Galilean School / Enroco Giusti -- Galileo's theories of free fall and projectile motion as interpreted by Pierre Gassendi / Carla Riat Palmerino -- Hobbes and the Galilean law of free fall / Cees Leijenhorst -- Christiaan Huygens' Galilean mechanics / Christiane Vilain -- Seventeenth-century theories of the tides as a gauge of scientific change / Wallace Hooper -- Mathematization of the science of motion at the turn of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries : Pierre Varignon / Michel Blay.
Includes bibliographical references 261-270) and index.
Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
Motion.
Science