Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature

Yoder, Joella G.

ISBN 10: 052134140X / ISBN 13: 9780521341400

Editore: Cambridge University Press, 1989

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• Titolo: Unrolling Time: Christiaan Huygens and the Mathematization of Nature
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1989
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 052134140X
• ISBN 13: 9780521341400
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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Riassunto

A case study of the interrelationship between mathematics and physics during the Scientific Revolution.

Recensione

"In her account of Huygen's mathematical reasonings, Yoder achieves an admirable combination of clarity and concision with faithfulness to the original. Her book casts a new and clear light on a mid-seventeenth-century phase of the scientific revolution." The Eighteenth Century

"...a significant contribution to scholarship on Huygens and to our understanding of scientific thinking in his time." Choice

"...an enlightening, sometimes surprising account fo the 'beautiful, intricate display of creativity.'" Perceptual and Motor Skills

"...Yoder has written a little gem of modern history of science at its scholarly best...it deserves to be read outside the confines of that discipline." Contemporary Physics