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One Hundred Years of Pressure - Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
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One Hundred Years of Pressure - Hydrostatics from Stevin to Newton (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Series: Archimedes, 51
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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
mathematization and experimentation. This book serves as an example
of the degree of conceptual change that new sciences often require.
It will be of interest to those involved in the study of history
and philosophy of science. It will also appeal to physicists as
well as interested general readers.
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