The discovery of dynamics : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories / Julian B. Barbour.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Barbour, Julian B., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dynamics.

Mechanics--History.

Mechanics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (775 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explains the history and philosophy that led to the development of classical dynamics by Newton, and then places Newtonian dynamics in the perspective of unresolved questions relating to the basic concepts of space, time and motion.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction to Volumes 1 and 2; 1 Preliminaries; 2 Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem; 3 Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid; 4 The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution; 5 Copernicus: the flimsy arch; 6 Kepler: the dominion of the sun; 7 Galileo: the geometrization of motion; 8 Descartes and the new world; 9 Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force; 10 Newton I: the discovery of dynamics; 11 Newton II: absolute or relative motion?; 12 Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics

Abbreviations for works quoted frequently in the ReferencesReferences; Index

Notes:

Originally published: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989.

Previously issued in print: 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028515-X

0-19-773220-8

1-280-83331-9

9786610833313

0-19-535110-X

OCLC:

667014618