Newton Huygens

Hall, A. Rupert: From Galileo to Newton, New York, Dover Publications, 1981, reprint of first 1963 ed.
new patterns of thought emerging during the period 1630-1720; Galilei, Newton, Huygens, Boyle, Descartes, Leeuwenhoek; VG condition

paperback 363 pp., 35 ills.

[SW: Keywords:science, history, Galileo, Newton, Huygens]

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Williams, Kim;Caparrini, Sandro: Discovering the Principles of Mechanics 1600-1800 Essays by David Speiser, Birkhäuser Verlag AG, September 2008 ISBN: 3764385642
This book assembles 21 essays on the history of mechanics and mathematical physics written by David Speiser from 1961 to 2003. The period dealt with goes from the beginning of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. In particular, the essays discuss developments in elasticity, rigid bodies, gravitation, the principle of relativity, optics, and first principles. David Speiser examines the work of Galileo, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz, the Bernoullis, Euler, Maupertuis, and Lambert. Sandro Caparrini and Kim Williams have selected the papers that present a cohesive overview of a crucial period in the history of mechanics by a historian and physicist of renown. Ordered chronologically with regards to the scientific developments, this collection presents a history of mechanics during the period under consideration. TOC:Foreword.- Introduction.- The Beginning of the Theory of Elasticity from Galileo to Jacob Bernoulli.- The Second New Science in Galileo's Discorsi.- Huygens's Horologium Oscillatorium and Newton's Principia.- Newton's Principia.- The Science of Mechanics in the Eighteenth Century.- The Discovery of Rigid Body Dynamics.- Johann Bernoulli's Work on the Theory of Gravitation and the Weight of the Atmosphere.- The Kepler Problem from Newton to John Bernoulli.- Daniel Bernoulli.- Leonhard Euler: Mathematician, Physicist, Engineer.- The Principle of Relativity in Euler's Works.- Euler, the Principle of Relativity and the Fundamentals of Classical Mechanics.- Euler's Anleitungen zur Naturlehre.- Euler's Work in Physical Optics.- Euler's Writings on Optics, Elasticity and Magnetism.- The Distance of the Fixed Stars and the Riddle of the Sun's Radiation.- Johann Heinrich Lambert.- Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis.- Editors's Notes.- References.- Illustration Credits.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects

NEUBUCH! 331 Seiten 242 mm x 172 mm x 25 mm Einband:Gebunden

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JARDINE, LISA: Curious Life of Robert Hooke. The Man who Measured London. Faber & Faber, London. 2003 1st edition.

Tall 8vo. In brown cloth covers with gilt to spine. With dustwrapper. 422pp. Prof. ills. with b/w and coloured photographs. In very good condition with very good dustwrapper (dw; Slight creasing to top edge. 2 advertising stickers on front. Price clipped). Author's signature plate on half title page. A clean and tight copy. English scientist Robert Hooke (1635-1703) is known to history more for losing quarrels with better-known scientists than for his achievements. He dared challenge Newton for credit as discoverer of the inverse-square law of gravitational attraction and lost. In his dispute with Dutch scientist Christaan Huygens over who invented the isochronous pendulum clock, Hooke fared slightly better, since it was discovered that unfriendly members of the fledging Royal Society were slipping word of his discoveries to Huygens. Cambridge Renaissance scholar Jardine follows up her 2002 biography of Christopher Wren with this satisfying rehabilitation of Hooke, Wren's colleague in rebuilding London after the devastating fire of 1666.

[SW: HISTORY LISA JARDINE, Robert Hooke, Measured London, scientist, Newton, Wren,]

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PARDIES, Ignace Gaston. Four interesting work by a famous scientist and clergyman Oeuvres de mathematiques. Contenant les elemens de geometrie, discours du mouvement local, la statique et deux machines propres a faire les cadrans.- IDEM. Discours du mouvement local. Avec des remarques sur le mouvement de la lumiere.- IDEM. La statique ou la science des forces mouvantes.- IDEM. Deux machines propres a faire les quadrans avec tres-grande facilite. The Hague, Adriaan Moetjens, 1691.
Interesting works on scientific instruments and empirical data extracted from experimenting with them on geometry, local movement, moving forces and on making squares, by the famous scientist and Jesuit Ignace Gaston Pardies (1636-1673). The Frenchman was as well a good clergyman as a good scientist and played an important role in the history of physics by placing critical notes at the ideas of Descartes, Newton and Huygens. He followed the last 2 closely and even stood in personal contact with Huygens and later also with Newton.The four works compiled in this book, were all separately published before in France, <I>Discours du mouvement locale </I>in 1670, <I>Elemens de geometrie</I> in 1671, <I>Deux machines propres</I> and <I>La statique </I>both in 1673. And the four works in this book are third or fourth editions. All four have their own title-pages, on the last three of which is mentioned that they are third editions. The pagination of the last 3 works is continuing. Preceding the first work is a stock-catalogue of the books sold by Adrian Moetjens on f. 5-6.
Good copy.- (Small tear in margin page 213/214).
De Backer-Sommervogel VI 200-205; DSB X, pp. 314-315; Bibliotheque National lists 1 copy exactly like ours.

4 parts in 1 vol. 12mo. Contemporary calf, spine ribbed and gilt, red marbled edges. Many woodcuts of geometrical figures in text, 9 engraved plates of which 5 folding. (12), 163, (5); 294, (2) pp.

[SW: Geometry;Jesuits;Physics;Science]

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