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