Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)

Roy Laird and Sophie Roux Introduction 1. Ancient and Medieval Mechanics Mark J. Schiefsky Theory and Practice in Heron's Mechanics Jean Celeyrette Bradwardine's Rule: A Mathematical Law? Edith Dudley Sylla The Origin and Fate of Thomas Bradwardine's De proportionibus velocitatum in motibus in Relation to the History of Mathematics Jurgen Sarnowsky Concepts of Impetus and the History of Mechanics 2. The Reappropriation and Transformation of Ancient Mechanics Christiane Vilain Circular and Rectilinear Motion in the Mechanica and in the Sixteenth Century Walter Roy Laird Nature, Mechanics, and Voluntary Movement in Giuseppe Moletti's Lectures on the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica Mario Otto Helbing Mechanics and Natural Philosophy in Sixteenth Century Pisa: Cesalpino and Buonamici, Humanist Masters in the Faculty of Arts Egidio Festa and Sophie Roux The Enigma of the Inclined Plane from Heron to Galileo 3. Mechanics in New Contexts Jochen Buttner The Pendulum as a Challenging Object in Early-Modern Period Victor Navarro-Brontons Mechanics in Spain at the end of the Sixteenth Century and the Madrid Academy of Mathematics Gert Vanpaemel Mechanics and Mechanical Philosophy in some Jesuit Mathematical Textbooks of the Early Seventeenth Century