Transformation and Tradition in the Sciences
Subtitle: Essays in Honour of I Bernard Cohen
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: October 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 591
ISBN-13: 9780521524858
Subjects: History Of Science; Science/Mathematics; Philosophy Of Science; Science; Essays; History; Science / History; Science-Essays; Technology / General; Philosophy & Social Aspects
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.