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Mathematics and the medieval ancestry of physics
- Title
- Mathematics and the medieval ancestry of physics / George Molland.
- Author
- Molland, George.
- Publication
- Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Variorum, 1995.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | QA32 .M585 1995 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 1 volume (various pagings); 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Collected studies series ; CS481
- Uniform Title
- Collected studies ; CS481.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- An examination of Bradwardine's geometry -- Campanus and Eudoxus; or, trouble with texts and quantifiers -- Shifting the foundations: Descartes's transformation of ancient geometry -- Implicit versus explicit geometrical methodologies: the case of construction -- The geometrical background to the 'Merton school' -- Richard Swineshead and continuously varying quantities -- John Dumbleton and the status of geometrical optics -- Cornelius Agrippa's mathematical magic -- Ancestors of physics -- Colonizing the world for mathematics: the diversity of medieval strategies -- Roger Bacon as magician -- Nicole Oresme and scientific progress -- Medieval ideas of scientific progress -- Mathematics in the thought of Albertus Magnus -- The atomisation of motion: a facet of the scientific revolution -- Continuity and measure in medieval natural philosophy -- The Oresmian style: semi-mathematical, semi-holistic.
- ISBN
- 0860784703
- 9780860784708
- LCCN
- 94038927
- OCLC
- ocm31291529
- 31291529
- SCSB-2058391
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library