Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2175 g
On the Motion of Inanimate Objects in Aristotle¿s Physics and On the Heavens
Buch, Englisch, 118 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 2175 g
Reihe: SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
ISBN: 978-3-319-21262-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
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Foreword.- Introduction.- General Plan of the Essay.- Chapter 1: The Three Levels of Aristotle’s Theory of Material Bodies in Forced Motion.- Chapter 2: Heaviness, Lightness, Sinking and Floating.- Chapter 3: Some Refinements of the Basic Theory.- Chapter 4: The Dynamics of Balance: The Winch and the Lever in the Pseudo Aristotelian Mechanical Problems.- Chapter 5: Hipparchus on the theory of Prolonged Motion.- Appendix 1: Do Heavy Objects become Heavier as they Approach their Natural Place?.- Appendix 2: A Threshold of Motion in Time, as well as in Force?.- Appendix 3: A Mathematical Formulation of Aristotle’s Theory of Forced Horizontal Motion.- Appendix 4: A Mathematical Formulation of Aristotle’s Theory of Natural and Forced Vertical Motion.- Appendix 5: A Mathematical Formulation of Hipparchus’s Theory of Vertical Motion.- Appendix 6: Alternative Translations of the Quotations Used in the Main Text.