TY - BOOK ID - 1698861 TI - Mechanics and Natural Philosophy before the Scientific Revolution AU - Laird, Walter Roy. AU - Roux, Sophie. AU - European Science Foundation. PY - 2008 VL - v. 254 SN - 1281180076 9786611180072 1402059671 1402059663 9048174910 PB - Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Mechanics KW - Science, Ancient. KW - Science, Medieval. KW - Science, Renaissance. KW - History. KW - Renaissance science KW - Science KW - Medieval science KW - Ancient science KW - Science, Primitive KW - History KW - Philosophy, medieval. KW - Philosophy, classical. KW - Philosophy of Science. KW - History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. KW - History of Mathematical Sciences. KW - Medieval Philosophy. KW - Classical Philosophy. KW - Philosophy. KW - Medieval philosophy KW - Scholasticism KW - Normal science KW - Philosophy of science KW - Philosophy and science. KW - Physics. KW - Mathematics. KW - Medieval philosophy. KW - Philosophy, Ancient. KW - Science and philosophy KW - Annals KW - Auxiliary sciences of history KW - Math KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Ancient philosophy KW - Greek philosophy KW - Philosophy, Greek KW - Philosophy, Roman KW - Roman philosophy UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:1698861 AB - Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions and within several disciplines and practices, including ancient and medieval natural philosophy, statics, the theory and design of machines, and mathematics. This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics. The first part of the volume is concerned with ancient mechanics and its transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part with the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and especially with the reception of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica in the Renaissance; and the third and final part, with early-modern mechanics in specific social, national, and institutional contexts. ER -