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Mechanics --- History. --- Wave mechanics. --- Wave mechanics --- Electrodynamics --- Matrix mechanics --- Molecular dynamics --- Quantum statistics --- Quantum theory --- Waves --- History --- Mécanique --- Histoire --- Histoire. --- Mechanics - History. --- Mécanique

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Thinking with Objects offers a fresh view of the transformation that took place in mechanics during the 17th century. By giving center stage to objects -- levers, inclined planes, beams, pendulums, springs, and falling and projected bodies -- Domenico Bertoloni Meli provides a unique and comprehensive portrayal of mechanics as practitioners understood it at the time. Bertoloni Meli reexamines such major texts as Galileo's Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Descartes' Principles of Philosophy, and Newton's Principia, and in them finds a reliance on objects that has escaped proper understanding. From Pappus of Alexandria to Guidobaldo dal Monte, Bertoloni Meli sees significant developments in the history of mechanical experimentation, all of them crucial for understanding Galileo. Bertoloni Meli uses similarities and tensions between dal Monte and Galileo as a springboard for exploring the revolutionary nature of seventeenth-century mechanics. Examining objects helps us appreciate the shift from the study to the practice of mechanics and challenges artificial dichotomies among practical and conceptual pursuits, mathematics, and experiment.

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This introduction to the history of science in the seventeenth century examines the so-called 'scientific revolution' in terms of the interplay between two major themes. The Platonic-Pythagorean tradition looked on nature in geometric terms with the conviction that the cosmos was constructed according to the principles of mathematical order, while the mechanical philosophy conceived of nature as a huge machine and sought to explain the hidden mechanisms behind phenomena. Pursuing different goals, these two movements of thought tended to conflict with each other, and more than the obviously mathematical sciences were affected - the influence spread as far as chemistry and the life sciences. As this book demonstrates, the full fruition of the scientific revolution required a resolution of the tension between the two dominant trends.

Mechanics --- Science --- History --- History. --- -Science --- -5/6 (09) --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Classical mechanics --- Newtonian mechanics --- Physics --- Dynamics --- Quantum theory --- Geschiedenis van de exacte en toegepaste wetenschappen --- Natural sciences --- Mechanics - History --- Science - History --- -History --- HISTOIRE DES SCIENCES --- CHIMIE --- NEWTON (SIR ISAAC), MATHEMATICIEN, PHYSICIEN ET ASTRONOME ANGLAIS, 1642-1727 --- TEMPS MODERNES --- HISTOIRE --- SCIENCE

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Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineers and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fundamental when taken up later by other hands. There was, moreover, a filial as well as substantive relation between the work of father and son. Sadi applied to the functioning of heat engines the analysis that his father had developed in his study of the operation of ordinary machines. Specifically, Sadi's idea of a reversible process originated in the use his father made of geometric motions in the analysis of machines in general. This unique book shows how the two Carnots influenced each other in their work in the fields of mechanics and thermodynamics, and how future generations of scientists have further benefited from their work.

Carnot, Lazare, 1753-1823. --- Carnot, Sadi, 1796-1832. --- Mechanics -- History. --- Thermodynamics -- History. --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Engineering - General --- Mechanics --- Thermodynamics --- History. --- Carnot, Lazare, --- Carnot, Sadi, --- Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard, --- Carnot, N. L. S., --- Karno, Sadi, --- Officier au Corps royal du génie, --- Carnot, Lazare Nicolas Marguerite, --- Carnot, L. N. M. --- Carnot, --- Karno, Lazar, --- Engineering. --- Epistemology. --- Mathematics. --- Engineering, general. --- History of Science. --- History of Mathematical Sciences. --- Math --- Science --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Carnot, Sadi Nicolas Léonard --- Carnot, N. L. S. --- Karno, Sadi --- Genetic epistemology. --- Developmental psychology --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Engineering --- Science - History --- Genetic epistemology