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The English Galileo : Thomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics

Publication year: 2008

: 978-1-4020-5499-0

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The English Galileo, the first book in series, investigates the shared knowledge of preclassical mechanics by relating the work of Thomas Harriot on motion, documented by a wealth of manuscripts, to that of Galileo and other contemporaries.


: Humanities, Social Science and Law / Galileo Galilei / classical mechanics / historical epistemology / mechanics / Philosophy of Science / History of Science