Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics

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Exploring the Limits of Preclassical Mechanics is written by Peter Damerow and published by Springer Science & Business Media. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 147573994X (ISBN 10) and 9781475739947 (ISBN 13).

The question of when and how the basic concepts that characterize modern science arose in Western Europe has long been central to the history of science. This book examines the transition from Renaissance engineering and philosophy of nature to classical mechanics oriented on the central concept of velocity. For this new edition, the authors include a new discussion of the doctrine of proportions, an analysis of the role of traditional statics in the construction of Descartes' impact rules, and go deeper into the debate between Descartes and Hobbes on the explanation of refraction. They also provide significant new material on the early development of Galileo's work on mechanics and the law of fall.