Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science (Hardcover): Mechanics and Natural Philosophy Before the Scientific Revolution (Hardcover)

Walter Roy Laird; Sophie Roux
Springer
9781402059667
1-4020-5966-3

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.

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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.