Swinging and Rolling
Subtitle: Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science
Publisher: Springer
Published: Aug 21, 2019
Language: eng; lat
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 487
ISBN-13: 9789402415926
Description: "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."--Back cover.
Notes: Source title: Swinging and Rolling: Unveiling Galileo's unorthodox path from a challenging problem to a new science (Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science (335))