Author: William WhewellPublisher:
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Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The Mechanical Euclid
Author: William WhewellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Higher
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The mechanical Euclid, containing the elements of mechanics and hydrostatics
Author: William WhewellThe Mechanical Euclid ... The Third Edition Corrected
Author: William WhewellThe Mechanics' Magazine
Author: The Mathematical Principles of Mechanical Philosophy, and Their Application to the Theory of Universal Gravitation
Author: John Henry PrattPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Celestial mechanics
Languages : en
Pages : 684
Book Description
The Mechanic's Magazine, Register, Journal and Gazette
Author: The Mechanical Tradition of Hero of Alexandria
Author: Courtney Ann RobyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316516237
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
The first book on Hero, a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period.
The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette
Author: Motion and Genetic Definitions in the Sixteenth-Century Euclidean Tradition
Author: Angela AxworthyPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3030958175
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A significant number of works have set forth, over the past decades, the emphasis laid by seventeenth-century mathematicians and philosophers on motion and kinematic notions in geometry. These works demonstrated the crucial role attributed in this context to genetic definitions, which state the mode of generation of geometrical objects instead of their essential properties. While the growing importance of genetic definitions in sixteenth-century commentaries on Euclid’s Elements has been underlined, the place, uses and status of motion in this geometrical tradition has however never been thoroughly and comprehensively studied. This book therefore undertakes to fill a gap in the history of early modern geometry and philosophy of mathematics by investigating the different treatments of motion and genetic definitions by seven major sixteenth-century commentators on Euclid’s Elements, from Oronce Fine (1494–1555) to Christoph Clavius (1538–1612), including Jacques Peletier (1517–1582), John Dee (1527–1608/1609) and Henry Billingsley (d. 1606), among others. By investigating the ontological and epistemological conceptions underlying the introduction and uses of kinematic notions in their interpretation of Euclidean geometry, this study displays the richness of the conceptual framework, philosophical and mathematical, inherent to the sixteenth-century Euclidean tradition and shows how it contributed to a more generalised acceptance and promotion of kinematic approaches to geometry in the early modern period.
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