书目名称 | One Hundred Years of Pressure |
副标题 | Hydrostatics from St |
编辑 | Alan F. Chalmers |
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概述 | Details the history of hydrostatics for the first time.Highlights the kind of conceptual change typical of advances in science.Stresses the fact that the notion of pressure was not obvious at the begi |
丛书名称 | Archimedes |
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描述 | .This monograph investigates the development of hydrostatics as a science. In the process, it sheds new light on the nature of science and its origins in the Scientific Revolution. Readers will come to see that the history of hydrostatics reveals subtle ways in which the science of the seventeenth century differed from previous periods. ..The key, the author argues, is the new insights into the concept of pressure that emerged during the Scientific Revolution. This came about due to contributions from such figures as Simon Stevin, Pascal, Boyle and Newton. The author compares their work with Galileo and Descartes, neither of whom grasped the need for a new conception of pressure. As a result, their contributions to hydrostatics were unproductive..The story ends with Newton insofar as his version of hydrostatics set the subject on its modern course. He articulated a technical notion of pressure that was up to the task. Newton compared the mathematical way in hydrostatics and the experimental way, and sided with the former. The subtleties that lie behind Newton‘s position throws light on the way in which developments in seventeenth-century science simultaneously involved mathematizat |
出版日期 | Book 2017 |
关键词 | History of hydrostatics; Emergence of the concept of pressure; Conceptual change in science; Mechanism |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56529-3 |
isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-85938-5 |
isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-56529-3Series ISSN 1385-0180 Series E-ISSN 2215-0064 |
issn_series | 1385-0180 |
copyright | Springer International Publishing AG 2017 |