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. M.-M. V.
SCHIEFSKY Mark J.
pages 15 à 49
CELEYRETTE Jean
pages 51 à 66
DUDLEY SYLLA Edith
pages 67 à 119
SARNOWSKY Jürgen
pages 121 à 145
VILAIN Christiane
pages 149 à 172
LAIRD Walter Roy
pages 173 à 183
HELBING Mario Otto
pages 185 à 193
ROUX Sophie, FESTA Egidio
pages 195 à 220
BÜTTNER Jochen
pages 223 à 237
NAVARRO-BRONTONS Victor
pages 239 à 258
VANPAEMEL Gert
pages 259 à 274