04259nam a22005655i 4500 978-3-031-45505-6 DE-He213 20251030112244.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240531s2024 sz | s |||| 0|eng d 9783031455056 978-3-031-45505-6 10.1007/978-3-031-45505-6 doi Q124.6-127.2 PDX bicssc SCI034000 bisacsh PDX thema Laird, Walter Roy. author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 77896 The Renaissance of Mechanics [electronic resource] : Ancient Science in the Age of Humanism / by Walter Roy Laird. 1st ed. 2024. Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIV, 413 p. 120 illus. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2215-0064 ; 68 Part I: Ancient mechanics -- Chapter 1. Devices and desires -- Chapter 2. Archimedes mechanicus -- Chapter 3. The Alexandria quartet -- Part II: Mechanics in the middle ages -- Chapter 4. The medieval science of weights -- Part III: The renaissance of mechanics -- Chapter 5. The recovery of ancient mechanics -- Chapter 6. Niccolò Tartaglia and the science of weights -- Chapter 7. Francesco maurolico and equal moments -- Chapter 8. Guidobaldo Dal Monte and Hero’s machines -- Chapter 9. Galileo and the lost principles of hero -- Conclusion. This book gives an account of the origins of theoretical mechanics in antiquity, its limited reception in the Arabic and Latin Middle Ages, and its recovery and subsequent development in Italy to the time of Galileo. From late antiquity to the fifteenth century, the ancient science of mechanics—the theory of machines—was almost completely unknown in the Latin west. Then, from the mid-fifteenth century on, Italian humanists began to recover the ancient texts, and from them through the sixteenth century Italian mathematicians restored the ancient science of mechanics. The Renaissance of Mechanics first examines the principal ancient works on mechanics—the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems, the mechanical geometry of Archimedes, and Hero’s Mechanics—and then describes their limited reception in the Arabic world and their even more limited transmission to the medieval Latin west. It then traces their recovery in the fifthteenth century and their assimilation in the sixteenth by Niccolò Tartaglia, Francesco Maurolico, and Guidobaldo dal Monte, culminating in Galileo’s rediscovery of Hero’s lost mechanical principles. The book ends with an examination of Galileo’s mechanics and its relation to his new science of motion, and suggests how modern mechanics would emerge from these ancient roots. Detailed analyses of these works offer new insights and interpretations while remaining accessible to general historians. The Renaissance of Mechanics will be of especial interest to those working in the fields of renaissance humanism and the history of ancient, medieval, and renaissance science and mathematics. Science History. 65232 Mechanics. 68102 Science Philosophy. 63307 History. History of Science. 66101 Classical Mechanics. 68103 Philosophy of Science. 68560 History. SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9783031455049 Printed edition: 9783031455063 Printed edition: 9783031455070 Archimedes, New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, 2215-0064 ; 68 74523 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-45505-6 ZDB-2-HTY ZDB-2-SXH 60318 60318