Author | Duhem, Pierre. author |
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Title | The Origins of Statics [electronic resource] : The Sources of Physical Theory / by Pierre Duhem |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1991 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3730-0 |
Descript | XXXV, 596 p. online resource |
Preface -- I. Aristotle (384โ322 B.C.) and Archimedes (287โ212 B.C.) -- II. Leonardo da Vinci (1452โ1519) -- III. Jerome Cardan (1501โ1576) -- IV. The Impossibility of Perpetual Motion -- V. The Alexandrian Sources of Medieval Statics -- 1. The works attributed to Euclid -- 2. The Liber Charastonis, published by Thรขbit ibn Qurra -- 3. The treatise De canonio -- VI. Statics During the Middle Ages โ Jordanus de Nemore -- 1. What do we know about Jordanus de Nemore? -- 2. Some passages from Aristotleโs Mechanical Problems -- 3. The Elements of Jordanus on the Demonstration of Weights -- VII. The Statics of the Middle Ages (Continued) โ The School of Jordanus -- 1. The Genesis of the Liber Euclidis de ponderibus -- 2. The Peripatetic transformation of the Elementa Jordani -- 3. The Precursor of Leonardo da Vinci. Discovery of the concept of moment. Solution to the problem of the inclined plane -- 4. The Treatise on Weights according to Master Blasius of Parma -- VIII. The Statics of the Middle Ages and Leonardo da Vinci -- 1. The School of Jordanus, the Treatise of Blasius of Parma and the Statics of Leonardo da Vinci -- 2. The Composition of Forces -- 3. The Problem of the Inclined Plane -- IX. The School of Jordanus in the 16th Century โ Nicolo Tartaglia -- 1. Nicolo Tartaglia or Tartalea -- 2. Jerome Cardan. โ Alexander Piccolomini. โ -- X. The Reaction Against Jordanus โ Guido Ubaldo โ G.B. Benedetti -- 1. Guido Ubaldo, Marquis del Monte (1545โ1607) -- 2. Giovanbattista Benedetti (1530โ1590) -- XI. Galileo Galilei (1564โ1642). -- XII. Simon Stevin (1548โ1620). -- XIII. The French Contribution to Statics โ Roberval -- 1. Salomon de Caus. The Early Works of F. Mersenne. The Course on Mathematics by Pierre Hรฉrigone -- 2. Gilles Persone de Roberval (1602โ1675) -- XIV. The French Contribution to Statics (Continued) โ Renรฉ Descartes (1596โ1650) -- Preface -- XV. The Mechanical Properties of the Center of Gravity from Albert of Saxony to Evangelista Torricelli -- First Period โFrom Albert of Saxony to the Copernican Revolution -- Second Period โ From the Copernician Revolution to Torricelli -- XVI. The Doctrine of Albert of Saxony and the Geostaticians -- 1. How the notion of the center of gravity was refined. The influence of Kepler -- 2. How the notion of the center of gravity was refined (continued). The geostaticians -- XVII. The Systematization of the Laws of Statics -- 1. F. Marin Mersenne (1588โ1648), Blaise Pascal (1623โ1662), F. Zucchi (1586โ1670), F. Honorรฉ Fabri (1606โ1688) -- 2. The Traitรฉ de Mรฉchanique of Roberval -- 3. John Wallis (1616โ1703) -- 4. The great treatises of statics from the Jesuit school. F. Dechales (1621โ1678), F. Paolo Casati (1617โ1707) -- 5. The reaction against the methods of virtual velocities and virtual work; Jacques Rohault (1620โ1675), F. Pardies (1636โ1673). The Treatises of F. Lamy, The De motu animalium of Borelli -- 6. The Parallelogram of Forces and Dynamics. The Observations of Roberval. Varignon (1654โ1722). The Letter of F. Lamy. The Principia of Newton. The Neo-Statics of F. Saccheri -- 7. The Letter of Jean Bernoulli to Varignon (1717). The definitive formulation of the Principle of Virtual Displacements -- Note A. On the Identity of Charistion and Heriston -- Note B. Jordanus de Nemore and Roger Bacon -- Note C. On the Various Axioms Permitting the Deduction of the Theory of the Lever