Galileo and the Equations of Motion

by Dino Boccaletti

Book Overview

Part I The Theories on the Motion of Bodies in the Classical Antiquity.- Kinematics among the Greeks.- Dynamics in the Opinion of Aristotle and his Continuators.- The Theories of Motion in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance.- The first substantial Criticisms to Aristotelian Mechanics - Philoponus and Avempace.- The medieval Kinematics.- Part II A brief Chronology of Galileo's Life.- The young Galileo and the De Motu.- The Inertia Principle.-The...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319201336
• ISBN13: 9783319201337
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 175 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"