Author | Centore, F. F. author |
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Title | Robert Hooke's Contributions to Mechanics [electronic resource] : A Study in Seventeenth Century Natural Philosophy / by F. F. Centore |
Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1970 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-9413-6 |
Descript | 135 p. online resource |
I: Hooke's Life and Times -- 1. Hooke's Early Life -- 2. Hooke's Oxford Days -- 3. Hooke and the Royal Society -- 4. Hooke's Denouement -- 5. Hooke's Works and Work -- II: The New Experimental Philosophy -- 1. Baconian Induction -- 2. Hooke and Baconian Induction in Theory -- 3. Hooke and Baconian Induction in Practice -- 4. Hooke's Development of Baconian Induction -- III: The Mechanics of Fluid Motions -- 1. The Legacy of Bacon and Boyle -- 2. Capillary Action (1661) -- 3. Fluid Pressure (1662) -- 4. The Springiness of Air (1660โ1678) -- 5. โBoyle's Lawโ -- 6. The Debates of 1678 -- IV: The Mechanics of Terrestrial Local Motions -- 1. The Legacy of Descartes -- 2. The Properties of Falling Bodies -- 3. The Springiness of Matter -- V: The Mechanics of Celestial Local Motions -- 1. The Cause of Planetary Motions -- 2. The Cause of Gravitation -- 3. The Mathematics of Gravitation -- VI: Hooke's Place in the History of Mechanics