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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Auteur(s) : Yavetz, Ido (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Bodies and media [Texte électronique] : on the motion of inanimate objects in Aristotle's Physics and On the heavens / Ido Yavetz
Publication : Cham : Springer, [2015]
Description matérielle : 1 ressource dématérialisée
Collection : SpringerBriefs in history of science and technology
Note(s) : Titre de l'écran-titre (visionné le 4 mars 2016). - Comprend des références bibliographiques
This book presents a recasting of Aristotle?s theory of spatial displacement of inanimate
objects. Aristotle?s claim that projectiles are actively carried by the media through
which they move (such as air or water) is well known and has drawn the attention of
commentators from ancient to modern times. What is lacking, however, is a systematic
investigation of the consequences of his suggestion that the medium always acts as
the direct instrument of locomotion, be it natural or forced, while original movers
(e.g. stone throwers, catapults, bowstrings) act indirectly by impressing moving force
into the medium. Filling this gap and guided by discussions in Aristotle?s Physics
and On the Heavens, the present volume shows that Aristotle?s active medium enables
his theory - in which force is proportional to speed - to account for a large class
of phenomena that Newtonian dynamics - in which force is proportional to acceleration
- accounts for through the concept of inertia. By applying Aristotle?s medium dynamics
to projectile flight and to collisions that involve reversal of motion, the book provides
detailed examples of the efficacy and coherence that the active medium gives to Aristotle?s
discussions. The book is directed primarily to historians of ancient, medieval, and
early modern science, to philosophers of science and to students of Aristotle?s natural
philosophy
Sujet(s) : Astronomie grecque
Aristote
Indice(s) Dewey :
500 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783319212630
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb446802786
Notice n° :
FRBNF44680278
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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. .
