Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from
materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period
from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These
materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions
and within several disciplines and practices, including ancient and
medieval natural philosophy, statics, the theory and design of
machines, and mathematics.
This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of
mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition,
between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the
wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the
accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts
ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics.
The first part of the volume is concerned with ancient mechanics
and its transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part with
the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and especially with the
reception of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica in the Renaissance;
and the third and final part, with early-modern mechanics in
specific social, national, and institutional contexts.
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