Representing Space in the Scientific Revolution

ISBN: 9781107624719 出版年：2014 页码：252 David Marshall Miller Cambridge University Press

List of figures Preface Note on texts 1. Introduction: centers and orientations 2. Pluribus ergo existentibus centris: explanations, descriptions, and Copernicus 3. Non est motus omnino: Gilbert, verticity, and the Law of the Whole 4. Respicere sinus: Kepler, oriented Space, and the ellipse 5. Mille movimenti circolari: from Impetus to conserved curvilinear motion in Galileo 6. Directions sont entre elles paralleles: Descartes and his critics on oriented space and the parallelogram rule 7. Incline it to verge: Newton's spatial synthesis 8. Conclusion: methodological morals References Index.