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100 1 _aSchemmel, Matthias.
_eauthor.
245 1 4 _aThe English Galileo
_h[electronic resource] :
_bThomas Harriot’s Work on Motion as an Example of Preclassical Mechanics /
_cby Matthias Schemmel.
264 1 _aDordrecht :
_bSpringer Netherlands,
_c2008.
300 _aXXXII, 766 p.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 1 _aBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
_x0068-0346 ;
_v268
505 0 _aHarriot’s Work on Motion in Context -- Thomas Harriot: Practical Mathematician and Pioneer of Modern Science -- Harriot and the Challenge of Projectile Motion -- An Introduction to Harriot’s Manuscripts on Motion -- Major Strands of Harriot’s Work on Motion -- Mathematical Analysis of the Motion of Fall -- Free Fall Experiments and Their Evaluation: The “Weight” of Falling Bodies -- Free Fall Experiments and Their Evaluation: Motion in a Medium -- Graphical Construction of Projectile Trajectories -- Exploration of the Inclined-Plane Conception of Projectile Motion -- Conclusion -- Shared Knowledge and Alternative Solutions in Harriot’s and Galileo’s Work on Motion -- Facsimile and Transcription -- Notes and Conventions -- Thomas Harriot’s Notes on Projectile Motion and the Fall of Bodies.
520 _aThe short series The Historical Epistemology of Mechanics presents the long-term development of mechanical knowledge. The books in this series combine the presentation of a broad selection of relevant sources with in-depth analyses of the long-term development of mechanical knowledge focusing on the early modern period. This series is conceived in analogy to the four-volume series on The Genesis of General Relativity (BSPS 250). The English Galileo, the first book in this 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. Harriot and Galileo indeed exploited the same shared knowledge resources in order to approach the same challenging objects. While the paths Harriot traces through the shared knowledge are different from Galileo’s, the work of the two scientists displays striking similarities as regards their achievements as well as the problems they were unable to solve. The study of Harriot’s parallel work thus allows the exploration of the structure of the shared knowledge of early modern mechanics, to perceive possible alternative histories, and to distinguish between individual peculiarities and shared structures of early modern mechanical reasoning. This study has received two distinguished awards, the Junior Scholar Award of the Georg Agricola Society and the Georg Uschmann Award of the German National Academy of Sciences, Leopoldina.
650 0 _aPhilosophy.
650 0 _aHistory.
650 0 _aPhilosophy and science.
650 1 4 _aPhilosophy.
650 2 4 _aPhilosophy of Science.
650 2 4 _aHistory of Science.
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830 0 _aBoston Studies in the Philosophy of Science,
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