Borelli's On the Movement of Animals - On the Natural Motions Resulting from Gravity
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-08535-7 (ISBN)
Originally published in Italian in 1667, then translated into Latin in 1686, the text of this volume has now been translated into English, making the text accessible to a wide readership.
This volume is the second of two volumes that contain the Introduction and physical-mathematical illustrations necessary to understand Giovanni Alfonso Borelli's work On the Movement of Animals, the founding text of seventeenth century biomechanics. The first volume, entitled On the Force of Percussion, demonstrates the nature of the energy of percussion, its causes, properties and effects.
Foreword.- Chapter I There are movements of sublunary bodies in a fluid environment, which nobody dealt with so far.- Chapter II On the moments of consistent and fluid heavy bodies floating in fluids.- Chapter III Every fluid body among those which rest on the surface of the earth is heavy and exerts the force of its gravity, even when present and quiescent in its due place, in all the fluid of its kind.- Chapter IV There is no positive lightness in the nature of things.- Chapter V On the structure, the gravity, the equilibrium and the elastic force of air.- Chapter VI There is neither attraction nor attractive force in Nature.- Chapter VII On the nature and cause of fluidity.- Chapter VIII Investigation of the cause of the spontaneous elevation of small particles of water in the air above the surface of the water.- Chapter IX On the mutual binding of floating corpuscles and on their shunning.- Chapter X On the natural velocity of heavy bodies in equal times.- Chapter XI Why movements of heavy bodies are made unequal by full fluid environments.- Chapter XII On the necessity of vacuum.- Chapter XIII Explanation of the fact that watery bodies when they freeze increase in volume with an enormous force.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.11.2014 |
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| Reihe/Serie | Studies in History and Philosophy of Science |
| Übersetzer | Paul Maquet |
| Zusatzinfo | XIV, 292 p. 14 illus. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 592 g |
| Themenwelt | Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin |
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| Schlagworte | Attraction nor attractive force in nature • Giovanni Alfonso Borelli • Movements of heavy bodies • Mutual binding of floating corpuscles • Natural Motions Resulting From Gravity • Natural velocity of heavy bodies • Nature and cause of fluidity • Positive lightness in the nature of things • Small particles of water above the surface of the • Small particles of water above the surface of the water • Spontaneous elevation of small particles of water • Structure, gravity, equilibrium and the elastic fo • Structure, gravity, equilibrium and the elastic force of air • Sublunary bodies in a fluid environment • The necessity of vacuum • Watery bodies frozen increase in volume with an en • Watery bodies frozen increase in volume with an enormous force |
| ISBN-10 | 3-319-08535-2 / 3319085352 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-319-08535-7 / 9783319085357 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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