Book contents
- Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
- Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Note on texts
- Chapter 1 Introduction: centers and orientations
- Chapter 2 Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus
- Chapter 3 Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the Law of the Whole
- Chapter 4 Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented space, and the ellipse1
- Chapter 5 Mille movimenti circolari: from impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo
- Chapter 6 Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule
- Chapter 7 Incline it to verge: Newton’s spatial synthesis
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: methodological morals
- References
- Index
Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
- Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Note on texts
- Chapter 1 Introduction: centers and orientations
- Chapter 2 Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus
- Chapter 3 Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the Law of the Whole
- Chapter 4 Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented space, and the ellipse1
- Chapter 5 Mille movimenti circolari: from impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo
- Chapter 6 Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule
- Chapter 7 Incline it to verge: Newton’s spatial synthesis
- Chapter 8 Conclusion: methodological morals
- References
- Index
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- Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014