Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of I Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 25, 1985
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 592
ISBN-13: 9780521267243
Subjects: History Of Science; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy Of Science; United States; Cohen, I. Bernard; Technology / General; Mathematics; History; Philosophy; Science
First sentence: I propose in this paper to look at one link between fourteenth-century science and Newton-namely, a concept of compounding ratios common to Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus, to Nicole Oresme's De proportionibus proportionum, and to the first edition of Isaac Newton's Principia.