Bodies and media : on the motion of inanimate objects in aristotle’s physics and on the heavens / Ido Yavetz.
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TextoSeries SpringerBriefs in History of Science and TechnologyEditor: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Springer, 2015Edición: 1st ed. 2015Descripción: xvii, 118 páginas : 20 ilustracionesTipo de contenido: - texto
- computadora
- recurso en línea
- 9783319212630
- D1-DX301
Springer eBooks
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. .
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