Absolute or Relative Motion? Volume 1: A Study from a Machian Point of View of the Discovery and the Structure of Dynamical Theories (Absolute or Relative Motion, #1)
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Barbour presents an original study of the discovery of dynamics, covering the period from antiquity to the publication 300 years ago of Newton's...
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Barbour presents an original study of the discovery of dynamics, covering the period from antiquity to the publication 300 years ago of Newton's Principia . It includes a detailed discussion of the development of ancient Greek astronomy, the Copernican revolution, the discovery of the laws of planetary motion of Kepler, Galileo's first great discoveries in the study of terrestrial motions, and the important contributions of Descartes and Huygens. The last quarter of the book is devoted to Newton and the clarification of the key dynamical concepts that he introduced.
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- ISBN10:052132467X
- ISBN13:9780521324670
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