Borelli's On the movement of animals : On the natural motions resulting from gravity / Giovanni Alfonso Borelli ; translated by Paul Maquet.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679, author.

Contributor:

Maquet, Paul G. J., 1928- translator.

Series:

Studies in history and philosophy of science ; v. 38.

Studies in history and philosophy of science, 0929-6425 ; volume 38

Standardized Title:

De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus. English

Language:

English

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Animal mechanics--Early works to 1800.

Animal mechanics.

Gravity--Physiological effect--Early works to 1800.

Gravity.

Fluids--Early works to 1800.

Fluids.

Biomechanics--Early works to 1800.

Biomechanics.

Motion--Early works to 1800.

Motion.

Animal locomotion--Early works to 1800.

Animal locomotion.

Gravity--Physiological effect.

Physical Description:

xiv, 292 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland ; New York : Springer, [2014]

Contents:

1. There are movements of sublunary bodies in a fluid environment, which nobody dealt with so far

2. On the mo[ve]ments of consistent and fluid heavy bodies floating in fluids

3. Every fluid body among those which rest on the surface of the earth is heavy and exerts the force of its gravity, even when present and quiescent in its due place, in all the fluid of its kind

4. There is no positive lightness in the nature of things

5. On the structure, the gravity, the equlibrium and the elastic force of air

6. There is neither attraction nor attractive force in nature

7. On the nature and cause of fluidity

8. Investigation of the cause of the spontaneous elevation of small particles of water in the air above the surface of the water

9. On the mutual binding of floating corpuscles and on their shunning

10. On the natural velocity of heavy bodies in equal times

11. Why movements of heavy bodies are made unequal by full fluid environments

12. On the necessity of vacuum

13. Explanation of the fact that watery bodies when they freeze increase in volume with an enormous force.

Notes:

Translation of: De motionibus naturalibus a gravitate pendentibus, originally published in Italian in 1670 and translated into Latin in 1686, a precursor to Borelli's major work, De motu animalium (On the movement of animals), 1685. (Page [4] of cover and Wikipedia).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-288).

Contains:

Borelli, Giovanni Alfonso, 1608-1679. On the natural motions resulting from gravity.

ISBN:

9783319085357

3319085352

OCLC:

895195022