"Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution
Publication year: 2008
ISBN: 978-1-4020-5967-4
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This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law, Ancient Science, Early-Modern Science, History of Mathematics, History of Mechanics, Medieval Science, Middle Ages, natural philosophy, nature, philosophy
