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Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks (Paperback, 2011 ed.) Loot Price: R2,926
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Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks (Paperback, 2011 ed.): Michael Elazar

Honore Fabri and the Concept of Impetus: A Bridge between Conceptual Frameworks (Paperback, 2011 ed.)

Michael Elazar

Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 288

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This book discusses the impetus-based physics of the Jesuit natural philosopher and mathematician Honore Fabri (1608-1688), a senior representative of Jesuit scientists during the period between Galileo's death (1642) and Newton's Principia (1687). It shows how Fabri, while remaining loyal to a general Aristotelian outlook, managed to reinterpret the old concept of "impetus" in such a way as to assimilate into his physics building blocks of modern science, like Galileo's law of fall and Descartes' principle of inertia. This account of Fabri's theory is a novel one, since his physics is commonly considered as a dogmatic rejection of the New Science, not essentially different from the medieval impetus theory. This book shows how New Science principles were taught in Jesuit Colleges in the 1640s, thus depicting the sophisticated manner in which new ideas were settling within the lion's den of Catholic education.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 288
Release date: September 2013
First published: 2011
Authors: Michael Elazar
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 262
Edition: 2011 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-9400736221
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Physics > General
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > General
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LSN: 9400736223
Barcode: 9789400736221

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