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 |
| Published: |
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. |
| Subjects: |
Table of Contents:
- 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.