The discovery of dynamics : a study from a Machian point of view of the discovery and the structure of dynamical theories

Abstract

INTRODUCTION TO VOLUMES 1 AND 2 1. Preliminaries 2. Aristotle: first airing of the absolute/relative problem 3. Hellenistic astronomy: the foundations are laid 4. The Middle Ages: first stirrings of the scientific revolution 5. Copernicus: the flimsy arch 6. Kepler: the dominion of the sun 7. Galileo: the geometrization of motion 8. Descartes and the new world 9. Huygens: relativity and centrifugal force 10. Newton I: the discovery of dynamics 11. Newton II: absolute or relative motion 12. Post-Newtonian conceptual clarification of Newtonian dynamics ABBREVIATIONS FOR WORKS QUOTED FREQUENTLY IN THE REFERENCES REFERENCES INDEX

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