Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 19.
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 07:16:26 +0100
From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@kcl.ac.uk>
Subject: new books
(1)
Volume 8 Number 2 of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing is now available on
the SpringerLink web site at
http://springerlink.metapress.com.
(2)
The Reception of Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth Century Europe
edited by
Carla Rita Palmerino
University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
J.M.M.H. Thijssen
Dept. of Philosophy, University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
BOSTON STUDIES IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE -- 239
This book collects contributions by some of the leading scholars working on
seventeenth-century mechanics and the mechanical philosophy. Together, the
articles provide a broad and accurate picture of the fortune of Galileo's
theory of motion in Europe and of the various physical, mathematical, and
ontological arguments that were used in favour and against it. Were
Galileo's contemporaries really aware of what Westfall has described as
"the incompatibility between the demands of mathematical mechanics and the
needs of mechanical philosophy"? To what extent did Galileo's silence
concerning the cause of free fall impede the acceptance of his theory of
motion? Which methods were used, before the invention if the infinitesimal
calculus, to check the validity of Galileo's laws of free fall and of
parabolic motion? And what sorts of experiments were invoked in favour or
against these laws? These and related questions are addressed in this volume.
Hardbound ISBN: 1-4020-2454-1 Date: June 2004 Pages: 280 pp.
EUR 99.00 / USD 109.00 / GBP 69.00
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