Honoré Fabri and the concept of impetus a bridge between paradigms /
This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal...
| Main Author: | Elazar, Michael. |
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| Other Authors: | SpringerLink (Online Service) |
| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; New York :
Springer,
©2011.
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxix, 259 pages) |
| Series: |
Boston studies in the philosophy of science ;
v. 288. |
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| Summary: |
This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of?impetus? in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo's law of fall and Descartes' principle of inertia. This account of Fabri's theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lion's den of Catholic education. |
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| Item Description: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Methodology and Main Texts -- Motion -- Impetus -- Fabri's Impetus and the Scholastic Tradition -- Natural Motion -- Fabri and the "Second Galilean Affair" -- Criticizing Aristotle -- The Law of Natural Numbers -- Fabri's Discrete Analysis -- The Assimilation of Galileo's Theory -- Fabri's Assimilation Strategies -- Violent Motion -- Fabri and Conservation of Rectilinear Motion -- The Conservation and Inexhaustibility of Impetus. This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honoré Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of?impetus? in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo's law of fall and Descartes' principle of inertia. This account of Fabri's theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lion's den of Catholic education. |
| Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xxix, 259 pages) |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9789400716056 9400716052 9789400716049 9400716044 |